US Patent Issued to Intel on June 16 for "Soft switching for efficient non-CMOS based DC-DC converter" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,805, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Soft switching for efficient non-CMOS based DC-DC converter" was invented by Sally Safwat Amin (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to a voltage converter which includes a soft switching driver for a low-side transistor which is in series with a high-side transistor to provide a desired output voltage Vx. The soft switching driver receives Vx on a feedback path and includes a clipper transistor to clip or reduce a maximum voltage of Vx to Vxsen. A restore circuit can be used to effectively add back a threshold voltage drop...