US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 29 for "Method for controlling a non-inverting buck boost DC-DC converter and corresponding converter" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,977, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method for controlling a non-inverting buck boost DC-DC converter and corresponding converter" was invented by Alessandro Bertolini (Vermiglio, Italy) and Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-inverting buck boost DC-DC converter operates with a ripple-hysteretic-current-mode-control including: a first state where control signals close a first high side switch and a second low side switch; a second state where control signals close the first high side switch and a second high side switch; a third stat...