ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,495, issued on June 23, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and converter having the same" was invented by Zhongwang Yang (Shanghai), Xueliang Chang (Shanghai) and Mingjie Shan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit and a converter having the same are provided. The converter further includes a first switch, and the integrated circuit includes a second switch and a sampling processing circuit. The control signals of the first and second switches are complementary, and the control signal of the second switch has a dead time. The sampling processing circuit is for sa...