ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,407, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Digitally-controlled DC-DC converter" was invented by Fabien Boitard (Mouans Sartoux, France), Ludovic Oddoart (Opio, France) and Christian Vincent Sorace (Falicon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digitally controlled DC-DC converter has a power stage coupled to an input voltage and to a control signal to generate an output voltage in response to the control signal. A controller generates the control signal and has an adjustment block to compare the output voltage to a reference voltage to generate a comparison signal, a logic circuit coupled to the a...