US Patent Issued to Empower Semiconductor on March 18 for "Systems and methods for stable intermediate node operation in series stacked phase DC-DC converters" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,534, issued on March 18, was assigned to Empower Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for stable intermediate node operation in series stacked phase DC-DC converters" was invented by Richard Nicholson (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter circuit. In one aspect, the power converter circuit includes a first buck converter coupled in series to a second buck converter at a junction, and a control circuit coupled to each of the first and second buck converters. In another aspect, the control circuit is arranged to continuously operate the first buck converter, sense a voltage at the junct...