US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on Oct. 20 for "Switching converter with overshoot reduction and associated controller" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,250, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Switching converter with overshoot reduction and associated controller" was invented by Chia-Chun Hsiao (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a switching converter has a comparison circuit, a load detect unit, a switching signal generator. The comparison circuit provides a comparison signal based on a feedback signal indicative of an output voltage. The unit detect unit determines whether a load release event is occurring in a load. The switching signal generator provides a switching control signal based on the com...