US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Power converter for reducing switching loss and enhancing system efficiency and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,665, issued on July 15, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Power converter for reducing switching loss and enhancing system efficiency and control method thereof" was invented by Kuo-Chi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsu Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes first to fourth switches, a flying capacitor, an inductor, an output capacitor and a control circuit. The first to fourth switches are sequentially coupled in cascode. The first switch receives an input voltage, and the fourth switch is further coupled to a ground termin...