US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on June 23 for "Switching converter with improved light load efficiency and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,487, issued on June 23, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Switching converter with improved light load efficiency and control method thereof" was invented by Guangzhuo Li (Hangzhou, China) and Pengfei Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a switching converter converting an AC input voltage into an output voltage. The controller includes a light load determining circuit, a voltage comparing circuit, a window generator and a switch control circuit. The light load determining circuit generates a light load determining signal indicating whether the switching conve...