US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Dec. 23 for "Hybrid linear-boost DC-DC converter with continuous input current regulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,399, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Hybrid linear-boost DC-DC converter with continuous input current regulation" was invented by Bin Zhang (Grass Valley, Calif.), Hua Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Min Chen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a regulator circuit that includes a linear input current regulating circuit configured to regulate input current to the regulator circuit when an output voltage of the regulator circuit is less than an input voltage of the regulator circuit; and a switching regulating circuit configured to regulate the input curre...