US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for sensing inductor input/output current in a DC-DC converter circuit" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,463, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Vrianza, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for sensing inductor input/output current in a DC-DC converter circuit" was invented by Marco La Pila (Gravina di Catania, Italy), Giuseppe Platania (Valverde, Italy) and Vanni Poletto (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching regulator circuit has a switching transistor actuated during a switching on phase of a duty cycle. The current flowing through an inductor of the switching regulator circuit is determined from sensing a transistor current flowing through the switching transistor during switching on phase and se...