US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 31 for "Power converter efficiency boost at low loads, keeping maximum constant switching frequency operation range" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,638, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Power converter efficiency boost at low loads, keeping maximum constant switching frequency operation range" was invented by Fabio Ballarin (Padua, Italy) and Andrea Cicognani (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching mode power supply that supplies power to a load. The circuitry of the power supply of this disclosure may be configured to operate with a constant switching frequency over a range of input voltages and a range of load power demand. The circuitry of this disclosure may modulate a minimum on-time (Ton-min) for a duty c...