ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,422, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"DC-DC converter topology with switching overcurrent protection" was invented by Florian Neveu (Freising, Belarus), Stefan Schimonsky (Munich) and Joerg Kirchner (Mauern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques and circuits, described herein, include solutions for pass-through operation including overcurrent protection in buck-boost converters. In some aspects, first and second switches selectively couple inputs of a peak current comparator to inputs of an error amplifier during pass-through operation. As part of peak current control scheme, one of...