US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Feb. 18 for "Mode-transition architecture for buck-boost converter" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,047, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mode-transition architecture for buck-boost converter" was invented by Rajesh Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Arun Khamesra (Bangalore, India), Pulkit Shah (Bangalore, India) and Hariom Rai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mode-transition architecture for USB controllers is described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) controller includes a controller coupled to a slope compensation circuit, the controller to detect a transition of a buck-boost converter from a first mode having a first duty cycle to a sec...