US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on April 1 for "Circuit for controlling converters, corresponding converter device and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,011, issued on April 1, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Circuit for controlling converters, corresponding converter device and method" was invented by Alberto Cattani (Cislago, Italy), Stefano Ramorini (Arluno, Italy) and Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half bridge converter is controlled by a circuit including a differential circuit receiving a reference signal and a feedback signal which is a function of an output signal from the converter. The half bridge includes hand low side switches. A comparator generates a PWM signal for controlling the convert...