ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,574, issued on April 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and system for entering and exiting a frequency clamp mode for variable frequency, offline switch-mode power converters" was invented by Anders Lind (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling a switching power converter having an input for receiving a periodic input signal and an output for providing a substantially constant output voltage to a load includes a monitor device configured to compare a switching time interval or a switching frequency with a predetermined threshold va...