US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 24 for "Switching regulator with configurable snubber" (New Hampshire, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,429, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Switching regulator with configurable snubber" was invented by Henry L. Edwards (Garland, Texas), Wei Da (Manchester, N.H.), Stephen Brink (Manchester, N.H.) and Joseph Maurice Khayat (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching regulator includes a low-side switching transistor, a snubber transistor, a first pull-down transistor, and a second pull-down transistor. The low-side switching transistor includes a first current terminal and a second current terminal. The first current terminal is coupled to a switching node. The second current terminal ...