US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 7 for "Folded ramp generator" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,913, issued on April 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Folded ramp generator" was invented by Yinglai Xia (Plano, Texas), Shailendra Kumar Baranwal (Murphy, Texas), Yogesh Kumar Ramadass (San Jose, Calif.) and Junmin Jiang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an apparatus comprises a power stage having a first power stage input, a second power stage input, and a power stage output. The apparatus also comprises a modulator circuit having a first ramp input, a second ramp input, a modulator input, a first modulator output, and a second modulator output, the first modulator output coupled t...