US Patent Issued to Reed Semiconductor on Aug. 4 for "System and method to boost light load efficiency for multiphase converters" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,803, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Reed Semiconductor Corp. (Warwick, R.I.).

"System and method to boost light load efficiency for multiphase converters" was invented by Wenkai Wu (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for boosting light load efficiency for multiphase converters through disabling at least partially a current sense circuit, disabling partial equivalent elements of one of power stages, using small size equivalent element for one of power stages, and through utilizing higher inductance, compared to other regular phases, to reduce RMS current."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2021, under Appli...