ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,798, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).
"Managing over-current condition in a switching converter" was invented by Arnold J D'Souza (Bangalore, India) and Shyam Somayajula (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter provides an output voltage, and includes a first switch, a gate driver and an over-current management block. The gate driver is operable to drive the first switch with an ON duration of a first magnitude normally to provide the output voltage. The ON duration corresponds to a first phase of each cycle of a sequence of cycles of a period...