ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,165, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Control of inductor switching" was invented by Vikas Vijay (Austin, Texas), Eduardo Velarde (Austin, Texas), Bryan Quinones (Austin, Texas), Douglas J. W. Macfarlane (Edinburgh, Great Britain), David Smith (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Saurabh K. Singh (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for controlling a switch transition in an inductive switching circuit are disclosed. A switch driver is configured to receive an indication of current through a diode associated with a first switch and dynamically control a switch t...