ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,281, issued on July 21, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Control system for LLC voltage converter using up-down counter configured to react to comparator output" was invented by Longqi Li (Maoming City, China) and Desheng Guo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) converter may include a control system that holds a duty cycle of control signals at a desired ratio, such as 50%. The control system may include a counter that is configured to count up and down and is further configured to generate event signals that are received at the inputs of a latch. An event signal may cause an...