US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on Aug. 25 for "Switching converter with zero-voltage switching and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,368, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Switching converter with zero-voltage switching and control method thereof" was invented by Jicheng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Guangzhuo Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a switching converter with a main switch and a sync switch and converting an AC (alternating current) input voltage into an output voltage. The control method includes the following steps. 1) Determining whether the switching converter works in DCM or CRM. 2) When the switching converter works in CRM, turning off the sync switch ...