ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,141, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Empower Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Inductor flux control circuits" was invented by David Lidsky (Oakland, Calif.), Timothy Alan Phillips (Hope, R.I.) and Parag Oak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched-mode power regulator circuit has four solid-state switches connected in series and a capacitor and an inductor that regulate power delivered to a load. The solid-state switches are operated such that a voltage at the load is regulated by repetitively (1) prefluxing the inductor then charging the capacitor causing an increased current to flow in the inductor and...