ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,240, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).
"Sensing inductor-current 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: "In a switching converter employing a high-side switch and a low-side switch that are alternately ON in a first phase and a second phase of a switching cycle respectively, inductor-current flowing through the high-side switch is sensed with a first scaling factor to obtain a scaled high-side current. Inductor-current flowing through the low-side switch is sensed wit...