US Patent Issued to Woodward on Feb. 17 for "Reduction of current ripple due to MOSFET switching delays in PWM-based drives" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,115, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Reduction of current ripple due to MOSFET switching delays in PWM-based drives" was invented by Ganga P. Jayaraman (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Dragan Micic (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving a first electrical current output setpoint, identifying a first operational condition based on the first electrical current output setpoint, providing, based on the identified first operational condition, a first pulse width modulated (PWM) s...