US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on Aug. 11 for "Multiphase switching converter with stackable controllers" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,537, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Multiphase switching converter with stackable controllers" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fangyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Ming Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a multiphase switching converter has a feedback pin, a reference pin, and a plurality of switching control pins. When the controller is a master controller, the reference pin provides a reference output signal based on a plurality of currents flowing through a plurality of switching circuits. When the controller is a slave con...