ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,361, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Digital control regulator" was invented by Daisuke Ide (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiko Shigyo (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Komagata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Naito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a low voltage and compact digital control regulator that achieves enhanced stability and reduced variations in ripple voltage and droop characteristics. The digital control regulator includes a first A/D converter configured to generate a first digital signal according to a differential ...