ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,461, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ningbo Aura Semiconductor Co. Ltd (Ningbo, China).

"Power stage providing higher magnitude current in a switching converter" was invented by Arnold J D'Souza (Bangalore, India) and Shyam Somayajula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter includes a power stage and a controller. The power stage drives a current through an inductance in a duration specified by a control signal. The phase controller generates the control signal to cause the power stage to generate a regulated supply voltage. The power stage is designed to communicate with the phase controller on a ...