US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Digitally calibrated sawtooth generator for PWM based buck converters" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,150, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Digitally calibrated sawtooth generator for PWM based buck converters" was invented by Juan Munoz Constantine (Hillsboro, Ore.), Christopher Schaef (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ajay Janardanan (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Alexander Lyakhov (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to a circuit which generates a sawtooth waveform based on an adaptive feedback loop that self-corrects the ramp up rate to account for variations in a device. The sawtooth waveform is obtained by repeatedly charging and discharging a capacitor according to a clock signal...