ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,454, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nexperia B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Method and an electronic system for soft recovery for switched mode power supplies" was invented by Jacob Smith (Dallas), Alejandro Vera (Dallas) and Jairo Olivares (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for soft recovery for switched mode power supplies includes: (a) detecting a drop of the output voltage value FB; (b) starting the output voltage values FB recovery using a current FB value stored as a Vref start value from which the recovery is to be made; (c) detecting the start of the recovery of the output voltage; (d) generating a timing p...