US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 3 for "Switching scheme for operating a three-level buck converter in a two-level buck converter mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,804, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switching scheme for operating a three-level buck converter in a two-level buck converter mode" was invented by Sanghwa Jung (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Chunping Song (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a three-level buck converter operating in a two-level buck converter mode with a delay between deactivating transistors when transitioning between charge and discharge phases. For example, certain aspects provide a power supply circuit generally including: a first transistor and a second transisto...