ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,508, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Control circuit for an electronic converter, related integrated circuit, electronic converter and method" was invented by Fabio Cacciotto (Camporotondo Etneo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for a switching stage of an electronic converter a driver circuit configured to generate one or more drive signals as a function of a Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) signal and a PWM signal generator circuit configured to generate the PWM signal. A first comparator asserts a comparison signal when a feedback signal having a voltage bein...