US Patent Issued to MagnaChip Semiconductor on June 2 for "Switch control circuit and switch control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,016, issued on June 2, was assigned to MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Switch control circuit and switch control method thereof" was invented by Jang Hyuck Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Joo Han Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch control circuit and switch control method are provided. The switch control circuit and switch control method compensate an error of a load current that occurs because of the changing of a slope of an inductor current based on the increase and decrease of an input voltage. The switch control circuit includes a current compensation device that ad...