US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Aug. 26 for "Control circuit for regulating output voltage of a buck converter during negative load transients" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,276, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Control circuit for regulating output voltage of a buck converter during negative load transients" was invented by Enrico Ferrara (Milan) and Luca Morinelli (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment buck converter control circuit comprises an error amplifier configured to generate an error signal based on a feedback signal and a reference signal, a pulse generator circuit configured to generate a pulsed signal having switching cycles set to high and low as a function of the error signal, a driver circuit configured to generate a driv...