US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics on March 3 for "DC-DC converter, control method and control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,808, issued on March 3, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"DC-DC converter, control method and control program" was invented by Toma Ogata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC converter is disclosed. The DC-DC converter includes a first switching element between an external input terminal and an inductor of a smoothing filter, a second switching element provided between the inductor and a reference voltage terminal, a control circuit for on-off controlling the first and second switching elements according to the upper and lower limit values of the output voltage, and a period determination circuit configured...