ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,316, issued on May 6, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Controller for a power converter and a method of controlling a power converter" was invented by Lukas Vaculik (Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic), Radek Holis (Karolinka, Czech Republic) and Ivan Sieklik (Slovakia, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a power converter includes a generator module which generates a sequence of pulses each having a width defined by a rise moment and fall moment stored in respective RM and FM registers. The sequence of pulses have a repetition rate that is modulated by a repetition period value stored in a RP...