US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 29 for "Three level switching converter and control" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,211, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Three level switching converter and control" was invented by Yichao Tang (Shanghai), Yan He (Shanghai) and Sombuddha Chakraborty (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes first, second third, and fourth transistors coupled in series, and a control circuit coupled to the first, second, third, and fourth transistors. The control circuit includes a clock generator, a current sense circuit, and a zero current differentiation zone (ZC_DF) circuit. The clock generator is configured to generate first and second clocks. The second clock is...