ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,979, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Asynchronous state machine for a switching converter" was invented by David Chesneau (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asynchronous finite state machine has states coupled by transitions each implemented by a flip-flop. Each flip-flop supplies a bit of a state of arrival of the corresponding transition, and receives a bit of an initial state of this transition on its data input and a first signal dedicated to the flip-flop on its control input. A circuit supplies, for each transition, a second signal of request for the transitio...