US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 17 for "Peak current limit management for high frequency buck converter" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,826, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Peak current limit management for high frequency buck converter" was invented by Janne Matias Pahkala (Oulu, Finland), Jussi Matti Aleksi Sarkka (Oulunsalo, Finland) and Juha Olavi Hauru (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a voltage converter, such as a buck converter, includes: a switching regulator circuit having high side and low side switches; comparators configured to compare a voltage of an output circuit to reference voltages; and a control circuit coupled to the current comparators, configured to receive outputs from the compa...