ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,508, issued on June 23, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Hybrid sensing circuits for switching direct-current-to-direct-current converters, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Xingxuan Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Xinyu Liang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid sensing circuit for generating a control signal for controlling a switching direct-current-to-direct-current (DC-to-DC) converter where (i) the switching DC-to-DC converter includes a first inductor-capacitor (LC) filter and (ii) a second LC filter is electrically coupled between a local output node and a remote...