ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,796, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Reed Semiconductor Corp. (Warwick, R.I.).

"Frequency lock loop for constant switching frequency of DC-DC converters" was invented by Jiwei Fan (Cary, N.C.), Yingqian Ma (Guangdong, China), Jingyuan Chen (Guangdong, China), Hal Chen (Short Hill, N.J.) and Jialun Du (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency lock loop for a constant switching frequency of DC-DC converter, wherein the frequency lock loop includes a modulation circuit to generate a modulation signal in response to an input signal of the DC-DC converter and a frequency signal. Wherein a timer of the DC-DC converter g...