ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,485, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Bandwidth control in PLL-based power converter" was invented by Andrea Acquas (Munich), Angelo Bassi (Munich), Federico Rossini (Munich) and Nicola Rasera (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-locked loop (PLL)-based power converter is disclosed. A power converter includes a switch circuit having a switch node coupled to a regulated power supply node via an inductor and configured to source a supply current to the regulated power supply node using one or more control signals. A control circuit performs a phase-frequency comparison of a reference clock sig...