US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on July 8 for "Low power boost converter startup with soft start and output voltage overshoot limiting" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,351, issued on July 8, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Low power boost converter startup with soft start and output voltage overshoot limiting" was invented by Srikanth Govindarajulu (Austin, Texas), Hatem M. Osman (Austin, Texas) and Michael D. Mulligan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a DC-DC converter circuit includes, in response to detecting a startup condition, charging an output capacitance coupled to an output node of the DC-DC converter circuit at a first rate in a first phase of a multi-phase startup mode of operation of the DC-DC converter circuit. The method i...