ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,132, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).
"Circuits and methods for PFM operation" was invented by Julian Tyrrell (Swindon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a power converter operable in a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode. The power converted may be configured for maintaining a PFM frequency above a predetermined frequency threshold when a load current at an output node of the power converter decreases. The power converter may comprise an inductor. The power converter may be configured to, in a PFM switching cycle: during a positive charge phase...