US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Methods and systems of current sensing in switching power converters" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,366, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Methods and systems of current sensing in switching power converters" was invented by Alessandro Zafarana (Milan) and Salvatore Leone (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current sensing in switching power converters. At least one example is a method comprising: discharging an inductor of a buck converter using a low-side FET during a discharge mode of a first cycle; providing, during the discharge mode, a signal indicative of instantaneous current to a voltage regulator, the signal indicative of instantaneous current proportional t...