US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on Oct. 27 for "Switching converter with floating node and associated control circuit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,694, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Switching converter with floating node and associated control circuit" was invented by Junlin Qian (Chengdu, China) and Yuedong Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a switching converter with a power switch includes a gate driver, a first transistor, and a regulator. The gate driver and provides a drive voltage to control the power switch based on a switch control signal. The first transistor is coupled between a first power supply node and a power supply terminal of the gate driver. A current sense sig...