US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 27 for "Selective stopband avoidance in switching converter controller" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,221, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Selective stopband avoidance in switching converter controller" was invented by Puneet Sareen (Freising, Germany), Michael Kanner (Munich), Christian Harder (Freising, Germany) and Narayanan Seetharaman (Unterschliessheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter controller includes: a stopband controller having a stopband controller input and a stopband controller output, the stopband controller is configured to provide stopband information at the stopband controller output responsive to a reference signal; a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM)...