US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 11 for "Controlled transient responses in four-switch buck boost power stages" (Texas, California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,544, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Controlled transient responses in four-switch buck boost power stages" was invented by Gustavo Martinez (Missouri City, Texas), Han Zhang (Missouri City, Texas), Robert Sheehan (Grand Ridge, Fla.) and Manish Bhardwaj (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Four-switch buck boost power stages with reduced overshoot conditions at an output node are presented. Based on a detected condition for a decrease in a quantity of the active load elements, the method includes enabling an active discharge circuit coupled to an output node of a power stage before the quanti...