ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,817, issued on June 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"DC-DC converter circuit and corresponding method of operation" was invented by Alessandro Bertolini (Vermiglio, Italy), Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy), Paolo Melillo (Caltanissetta, Italy), Salvatore Levantino (Milan) and Massimo Ghioni (Monza, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multi-level hybrid DC-DC converter with a flying capacitor, a feedback circuit includes a first oscillator and produces a first clock signal with a frequency dependent on an output voltage. A second oscillator produces a second clock signal having...