ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,774, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Adaptive ramp time modulation" was invented by Karl Moore (Ely, Great Britain) and Antonius Werner (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a power converter comprising a drive circuit and an adaptive current limit generator. The drive circuit is coupled to receive a request signal representative of a power demand of an output of the power converter. The drive circuit is configured to generate a drive signal to control switching of a power switch in response to the request signal. The adaptive current limit generator co...