ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,240, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for actuating a buck-boost converter" was invented by Stefan Schulz (Gnadendorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for actuating a DC-to-DC converter, in particular a clocked buck-boost converter that includes at least two switch elements and an inductor or throttle and via which an input voltage is converted into a regulated output voltage, wherein the switch elements are actuated with a variable switch frequency using pulse- and frequency-modulated control signals, where the pulse- and frequency-modulated control signals are derived from a manipulate...