US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on June 30 for "Control method for switched-mode power supplies" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,330, issued on June 30, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp..

"Control method for switched-mode power supplies" was invented by Ellis George Tsekouras (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling switched-mode power supplies. One system includes a converter including a switch and an inductor and processor to control operation of the converter. The processor is configured to determine whether a predicted value of current flowing through the inductor is greater than zero. The processor is further configured to determine the converter is operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM) when the p...