US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 13 for "Smart compensation for buck converters in discontinuous conduction mode" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,114, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart compensation for buck converters in discontinuous conduction mode" was invented by Chia-Kun Wu (Taoyuan, Singapore), Shao-Suz Ho (New Taipei, Singapore) and Wen-Yung Chang (Taoyuan, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck converter includes a high-side N-FET, a low-side N-FET, a P-FET, a between a gate terminal and a source terminal of the P-FET, aa capacitor, and a FET driver. The FET driver operates in a selectable one of a continuous current mode and a discontinuous current mode. In a first phase of the discontinuous current mode, a gate vo...