US Patent Issued to INVENTVM Semiconductor, Silicon Mitus. on Feb. 17 for "State machine based DC/DC converter" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,094, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INVENTVM Semiconductor SRL (Pavia, Italy) and Silicon Mitus. Inc. (Daewangpangyo-Ro, South Korea).

"State machine based DC/DC converter" was invented by Francesco Rezzi (Montebello della Battaglia, Italy), Alessandro Pesucci (Bereguardo, Italy), Flavio Avanzo (Certosa di Pavia, Italy) and Andrea Lombardi (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck-boost converter includes a converter, for converting an input voltage into an output voltage, the converter including a plurality of switches and an inductor, and a controller for controlling the plurality of switches. The operation of the con...