ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,446, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Adaptive slew rate resonant power converter and conversion control circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Kun-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsin-Yi Wu (Yunlin, Taiwan), Yu-Chang Chen (Nantou, Taiwan), Fu-Ciao Syu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hsien Yang (Keelung, Taiwan), Chien-Fu Tang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit of a resonant power converter comprising: a high-side switch and a low-side switch, coupled to form a half-bridge switching circuit which is configured to switch a transf...