ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,055, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Low power green mode for multi-phase power converters" was invented by Basil Almukhtar (Dooradoyle, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase power converter includes a digital ramp pulse modulation controller, a digital constant on-time controller, and a driver stage. The digital ramp pulse modulation controller provides a trigger ramp signal in response to an error signal when the multi-phase power converter is not in a green mode, wherein at least a portion of the digital ramp pulse modulation controller is inactive in ...