ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,133, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Switching regulator with adjustable on-time" was invented by Zheyuan Tan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter with adjustable on-time is presented. The switching converter includes an inductor coupled to a power switch; a pulse generator generating a pulsed signal to switch the power switch and a controller. The pulsed signal has an on-time adjustable between a first value and a second value, the first value being shorter than the second value. The controller identifies a mode of operation between a continu...