US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 30 for "Override mechanism for PWM operation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,822, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Override mechanism for PWM operation" was invented by Yong Yuenyongsgool (Gilbert, Ariz.), Andreas Reiter (Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany), Stephen Bowling (Chandler, Ariz.) and Jason Sachs (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a pulsed-width modulation (PWM) generator circuit to generate generally complementary PWM signals. The signals are to prevent two complementary switches that receive the complementary PWM signals from both being activated at a same time. The PWM signals are generally complementary with respect ...