US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 22 for "Adjustable power FET driver" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,526, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adjustable power FET driver" was invented by Raveesh Magod Ramakrishna (Dallas), Maik Peter Kaufmann (Freising, Germany), Michael Lueders (Freising, Germany), Johan Strydom (Saratoga, Calif.) and Stefan Herzer (Marzling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an integrated circuit includes first and second current sources, first and second switches, a dV/dt phase detector, a control circuit, and source, gate, and drain terminals for coupling to, respectively, a source, gate, and drain of a power FET. The first switch is coupled between ...