ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,632, issued on March 31, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power converter having multi-mode switching mechanism" was invented by Jen-Chien Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tsung-Yu Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter having a multi-mode switching mechanism is provided. The power converter includes a first switch, a second switch, a low-side switch, an output calculating circuit and a control circuit. A first terminal of the first switch is connected to a first terminal of an inductor. A second terminal of the inductor is connected to an input power source. A first term...