ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,797, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Power converter integrated circuit" was invented by Seunguk Yang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sangkoo Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Sungdae Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sehyung Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter integrated circuit comprising a switch network having coupling nodes for coupling the switch network to a single flying capacitor, an output capacitor, and an inductor; wherein the power converter integrated circuit is operable in a first forward mode as switched capacitor power converter circuitry and in a second f...