ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,576, issued on April 14, was assigned to RENESAS DESIGN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Switching power converter controller for digital control of constant-power mode" was invented by Tao Li (Campbell, Calif.), Yimin Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Juyoung Yoon (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power converter is provided with digital control of a constant-power mode. During the constant-power mode, the switching power converter may approximate an analog constant-power mode by incrementing or decrementing the output voltage by discrete voltage steps. At each discrete voltage step, the output current m...