US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on Oct. 21 for "Controllers for programmable power supplies and associated systems and methods" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,790, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controllers for programmable power supplies and associated systems and methods" was invented by Punith Kumar Reddy Surkanti (Chandler, Ariz.), Anurag Veerabathini (San Mateo, Calif.), Jan Feliks Swidzinski (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Nesaruddin A. Khan (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a power supply includes (1) generating a current error signal representing a difference between (a) magnitude of an output current of the power supply and (b) magnitude of a reference current value and (2) providing the current er...