ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,146, issued on July 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Isolated high-voltage DC-DC converter hysteretic burst mode noise immunity using dynamic hysteresis" was invented by Bharath Balaji Kannan (Merrimack, N.H.), Robert Martinez (Lucas, Texas), Jose Antonio Vieira Formenti (Allen, Texas) and Michael Corry (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-to-DC converter having primary- and secondary-side circuitry separated by an isolation barrier, with a transformer and a feedback lane across the barrier, uses a dynamic function current source in its secondary-side circuitry to dynamically adjust the hysteresis thre...