ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,071, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Current-mode feedforward ripple cancellation" was invented by Kishan Joshi (Tucson, Ariz.) and Sanjeev Manandhar (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an apparatus includes an error amplifier, a buffer, a transistor, and a current-mode feedforward ripple canceller (CFFRC). The error amplifier has an amplifier output, a first input, and a second input, the error amplifier second input configured to receive a reference voltage. The buffer has a buffer input and a buffer output, the buffer input coupled to the error amplifier output. The transistor ...