US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 14 for "Circuit and system for the protection of primary transistors in power converters with active clamping" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,042, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Circuit and system for the protection of primary transistors in power converters with active clamping" was invented by Shamim Choudhury (Katy, Texas) and Sheng-Yang Yu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system for controlling a power converter having an active clamping circuit includes a current sensor configured to sense current through a primary side of a transformer within the power converter, and a comparator sub-system. The comparator sub-system is configured to receive a transformer current signal from the current sensor and genera...