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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2023
United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, San Diego, CA (US);
Dwane Sample, San Diego, CA (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A driver system comprising a bridge driver section, a switch FET section comprising: a drive stage section, a device section, and a current limiting section, wherein the switch FET section electrically couples the bridge driver section to the device section, wherein the fast current clamp is electrically coupled to the device section. By using the drive-bridge configuration, the gate capacitance of the switch FET can be charged and discharged quickly enough to meet the edge rate requirements. The switch FET is driven into and out of saturation such that the current through the device section is either on or off.