US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 9 for "Power stage safety and latch-up prevention in multi-phase DC-DC converter by ensuring safe pwm sequencing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,138, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Power stage safety and latch-up prevention in multi-phase DC-DC converter by ensuring safe pwm sequencing" was invented by Mustapha El-Markhi (Richardson, Texas), Vikram Mani (Plano, Texas) and Avadhut Junnarkar (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques and circuits, described herein, include solutions for latch-up prevention in multi-phase direct current (DC) to DC converters by ensuring safe pulse width modulation (PWM) control sequencing. In some aspects a latch-up pre-detection circuit has first and second detection inputs configured t...