US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 8 for "Inductor property identification for power converters" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,084, issued on April 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Inductor property identification for power converters" was invented by Ronnie Antone Bean Jr. (Lenoir City, Tenn.) and Benjamin Matthew McCue (Clinton, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a current sensor circuit having inputs and an output. The current sensor inputs are adapted to be coupled to inductor terminals a power converter. The current sensor circuit includes a tunable time constant circuit coupled between the current sensor inputs and the current sensor output. A time constant control circuit is coupled to a tunable time constant c...