ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,993, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"DC-DC converter circuit, corresponding method of operation and method of trimming a DC-DC converter circuit" was invented by Tommaso Rosa (Milan), Alessandro Bertolini (Vermiglio, Italy), Stefano Ramorini (Milan) and Alberto Cattani (Cislago, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC boost converter includes an input receiving an input voltage and an output producing an output voltage. A switching stage is formed by a low-side transistor arranged between a switching node and a ground node, and a high-side transistor arranged between the swi...