US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 1 for "Multi-phase buck-boost converter" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,124, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Multi-phase buck-boost converter" was invented by Eric Southard (Richardson, Texas), Daniel A. Mavencamp (Dallas), Qiong Li (Allen, Texas) and Shishuo Zhao (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase buck-boost converter includes a first half-bridge circuit, a second half-bridge circuit, a third half-bridge circuit, and a control circuit. The first half-bridge circuit is coupled to a first inductor terminal. The second half-bridge circuit is coupled to a second inductor terminal. The third half-bridge circuit is coupled to a third inductor t...