ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,485, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pseudo-emulated peak current mode for three-level buck converter" was invented by Sanghwa Jung (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Stuart Pullen (Carolina Beach, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for operating a three-level buck converter. An example method for operating the three-level buck converter may include: identifying a voltage value based on an input voltage of the three-level buck converter; determining an emulated current for an inductive element of the three-level buck converter based on an ...