US Patent Issued to National Cheng Kung University, Himax Technologies on April 21 for "Single-inductor bipolar-output converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,602, issued on April 21, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Single-inductor bipolar-output converter" was invented by Meng-Xun Cai (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chien-Hung Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-inductor bipolar-output converter includes a power stage that generates a positive output voltage and a negative output voltage; a first error amplifier that generates a first error signal according to the positive output voltage; a second error amplifier that generates a second error signal according to the negative o...