ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,083, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Power conversion system for limiting the input burst current" was invented by Yi-Chun Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Ping Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion system for converting an input power to an output power, includes: a current limit circuit clamping an input current of the output power to be not exceeding an input current limit during a current clamping state; and a charge quantity regulation circuit converting the output power to a temporary storage power in a temporary storage capacitor during a charging mo...