ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,917, issued on April 7, was assigned to VISIC TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Nes Ziona, Israel).
"Power switch with normally on transistor" was invented by David Shapiro (Rishion LeZion, Israel), Shmuel Ben-Yaacov (Tel Yitzhak, Israel), Dmitry Novo (Kibbutz Beit-Govrin, Israel), Gleb Vetakh (Ashdod, Israel) and Shahar Wagner (Ein-Vered, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power switch comprising: a cascode having a normally ON transistor connected in series with a normally OFF transistor at a cascode node; a safety switch between a gate of the normally ON transistor and a first ground common to the cascode and the switch; and a controller com...