US Patent Issued to Lion Semiconductor on June 23 for "Bypass switching arrangement for series connected switched capacitor regulators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,930, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lion Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Bypass switching arrangement for series connected switched capacitor regulators" was invented by Hanh-Phuc Le (San Diego), John Crossley (Oakland, Calif.), Alberto Alessandro Angelo Puggelli (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wonyoung Kim (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feedback system that can control hybrid regulator topologies that have multiple converters or regulators connected in series is described. The hybrid regulator can include at least two regulators: a switched inductor regulator and a switched-capacitor regulator. The feedback syste...