ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,298, issued on July 21, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).
"Control circuit and method for controlling mode transition in a DC/DC converter" was invented by Stefan Dietrich (Uebach-Palenberg, Germany), Eduardas Jodka (Freiburg, Germany) and Christian Gehle (Karlsfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for controlling a power converter is provided. The control circuit is configured to operate the power converter in a PFM mode, using a set of activated PFM functional blocks, while a set of PWM functional blocks for operating the power converter in a PWM mode is inactive. Further...