ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,367, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).

"Switching regulator and method for controlling switching regulator" was invented by Dashun Xue (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes a switching regulator (100) configured to generate an output voltage (VOUT) based on an input voltage (VDD) using at least one power switch (101) and an inductor. The switching regulator (100) comprises a first control circuit (120, 130) configured to generate a first control signal (131) for turning off the power switch (101), in dependence of a level of the inductor c...