US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Aug. 25 for "Development of compact and low cost fully integrated DC-DC converter with resonant gate drive and intelligent transient response" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,349, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Development of compact and low cost fully integrated DC-DC converter with resonant gate drive and intelligent transient response" was invented by Jie Gu (Evanston, Ill.) and Xi Chen (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning based control scheme for a buck converter achieves fast and more energy efficient regulation of power supply change using a machine learning module that predicts upcoming supply droop or overshoot. The prediction results may be sent to a buck converter to provide power regulation in time so that the buck conv...