ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,367, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (P.O. Box 655474, M/S 3999 Dallas, Texas).

"Reverse recovery protection in a switching voltage converter" was invented by Indumini W Ranmuthu (Plano, Texas) and Michael T Direnzo (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator control circuit includes a transistor input controller. The transistor input controller forces a slew control signal on its slew control output to a state responsive to a change in a load condition and forces an ON signal to a state on its first transistor control output. A first transistor has a first control input and first and ...