US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on May 13 for "DC-DC converter apparatus with time-based control loop and corresponding control method, and computer program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,093, issued on May 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"DC-DC converter apparatus with time-based control loop and corresponding control method, and computer program product" was invented by Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy), Alessandro Bertolini (Vermiglio, Italy), Mauro Leoncini (Agrate Brianza, Italy), Massimo Ghioni (Monza, Italy) and Salvatore Levantino (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time based boost DC-DC converter generates an output voltage using an inductor. A voltage error between the output voltage and a reference voltage is determined and processed in a) an integral ...