ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,139, issued on July 1, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Lowering inductor peak current in DCDC digital controller" was invented by Rinu Mathew (Bangalore, India), Vineet Khurana (Delhi, India), Anand Kumar G (Bangalore, India), Aniruddha Periyapatna Nagendra (Bangalore, India) and Harikrishna Parthasarathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a voltage converter includes a pulse generator. The voltage converter also includes a high-side transistor having a gate coupled to the pulse generator, a source coupled to a first voltage terminal, and a drain coupled to an output node. The voltage con...