US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 25 for "Switching power converter and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,346, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switching power converter and control method thereof" was invented by Sang-Heum Yeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power converter includes: a power stage circuit for converting an input voltage to an output voltage by switching an inductor with a synchronous or an asynchronous mode; an error amplifier to generate an error amplified signal; a modulation comparator for generating a primary modulation signal by comparing the error amplified signal and a ramp signal; a pulse skipping comparator for generating a pul...