US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 1 for "Method for operating in burst mode active clamp flyback converters and corresponding active clamp flyback converter apparatus" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,129, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrata Brianza, Italy).

"Method for operating in burst mode active clamp flyback converters and corresponding active clamp flyback converter apparatus" was invented by Claudio Adragna (Monza, Italy), Massimiliano Gobbi (Castel San Giovanni, Italy) and Giuseppe Bosisio (Sesto San Giovanni, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active flyback converter is transitioned between a plurality of operational states based on a comparison of a control voltage signal to voltage thresholds and a count of a number of consecutive switching cycles during which a clamp switch is ke...