ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,131, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, 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) and Giuseppe Platania (Valverde, Italy).
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 dividing the sensed tr...