US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on Feb. 18 for "DC-DC converter and method of controlling the same" (American, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,049, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"DC-DC converter and method of controlling the same" was invented by Raymond Barnett (Plymouth, Minn.), Brett Smith (Fayette, Iowa) and Thinh Ba Nguyen (Hanoi, Viet Nam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC converter is disclosed having an electronic switch network having a supply node, a ground node, an output node, a first inductor node, a second inductor node, and switch control inputs. An inductor is coupled between the first inductor node and the second inductor node. Control logic circuitry has switch control outputs coupled to the switch control inputs,...