US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Feb. 17 for "Synchronous buck/boost PWM converters with current-based switching" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,087, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Synchronous buck/boost PWM converters with current-based switching" was invented by Tuomo Matias Kohtamaki (Helsinki), Michael James DiGiovanni (Raleigh, N.C.) and Swanand Juvekar (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a converter circuit (e.g., a buck/boost converter) comprising at least one transistor and a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal generator circuit configured to receive a duty command signal, to generate at least one PWM signal for the at least one transistor responsive to the duty command signal, and to selectively ...