ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,421, issued on June 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Power converter control module" was invented by Emanuele Moretti (Milan), Ivan Floriani (Milan) and Giulia Altamura (Cusago, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control module is used to control a switching buck-boost converter that includes an inductor, a capacitor, a first top switch and a second top switch, a first bottom switch and a second bottom switch and a diode coupled to the second top switch. The control module controls the switching buck-boost converter so as to alternate: first time periods, in which the second top switch is op...