ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,096, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Constant ripple algorithm in DCM for buck converter" was invented by Asif Qaiyum (Freising, Germany), Ruediger Kuhn (Freising, Germany) and Martin Schneider (Kraiburg am Inn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ripple voltage detector circuit comprises a pulse generator, a direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) converter coupled to the pulse generator, and a first control loop coupled to the pulse generator and the DC-DC converter. The first control loop is configured to measure an output voltage of the DC-DC converter, determine an output ripple voltage ...