US Patent Issued to MediaTek on June 9 for "Detecting output inductor opened for buck converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,967, issued on June 9, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Detecting output inductor opened for buck converter" was invented by Chih-Chen Li (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Jin-Yan Syu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck converter includes a first transistor, a second transistor, an inductor and a capacitor. The first transistor, the second transistor and the inductor are coupled to a switching node. A method includes charging the switching node for a predetermined duration using a first charging current, detecting a voltage at the switching node to obtain a first detection voltage, and determinin...