ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,634, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Phase addition in power converters" was invented by John Stuart Kleine (Cary, N.C.), Yashovardhan Rao Potlapalli (Cary, N.C.) and Michael Jason Houston (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for a power converter are described. A controller can generate first clock signals and generate pulse width modulation (PWM) signals using the first clock signals to operate a first number of active phases in a power converter to supply power to a load. The controller can determine the load demands a second number, greater than the...