ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,292, issued on July 21, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Direct current (DC)-DC converter operational mode transition with limited voltage undershoot or overshoot" was invented by Mohammed Mansri (Chandler, Ariz.), Ondrej Pauk (Chandler, Ariz.) and John Ryan Goodfellow (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a circuit for a direct current (DC)-DC converter and DC-DC converters are disclosed. In an embodiment, a circuit for a DC-DC converter includes a resistive divider connected to an electrical terminal of the DC-DC converter, an amplifier connected to the resistive divider, a clock synchronization u...