US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Feb. 25 for "High-voltage tolerant, high-speed reverse current detection and protection for buck-boost converters" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,296, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High-voltage tolerant, high-speed reverse current detection and protection for buck-boost converters" was invented by Partha Mondal (Paschim Medinipur, India), Tudu Balia (Bangalore, India), Hariom Rai (Bangalore, India) and Pulkit Shah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a buck gate driver coupled to first high-side switch and first low-side switch of a buck-boost (BB) converter. A zero crossing detection (ZCD) comparator is coupled to first low-side switch. The ZCD comparator is to, while the BB converter oper...