ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,089, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).
"Switching converter" was invented by Vinod Aravindakshan Lalithambika (Harlow, Great Britain), Christopher John Miller (Harlow, Great Britain), Allan Richard Warrington (Harlow, Great Britain) and Benoit Labbe (Harlow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter is presented. The switching converter has a high side power switch coupled to a low side power switch at a switching node, a driver and a timing circuit. The driver generates a drive signal having a on-time to drive the high side power switch. The timing circuit generates a cont...