US Patent Issued to Rambus on Oct. 28 for "Implementing a buck converter supporting automatic continuous conduction mode and discontinuous conduction mode" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,922, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Implementing a buck converter supporting automatic continuous conduction mode and discontinuous conduction mode" was invented by Gaurav Bawa (Austin, Texas), Panduka Wijetunga (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Mo Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit including a buck converter having an integrator and a shunt resistor is described. The buck converter may operate in a continuous conduction mode (CCM) and a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). The integrator may be coupled to the buck converter to generate an output voltage based ...