ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,553, issued on July 7, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Conversion control circuit for controlling a stackable multi-phase power converter" was invented by Chen-Yun Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chuan Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hao Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Wen Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion control circuit for controlling a stackable multi-phase power converter, the conversion control circuit including: a master transfer terminal, wherein a master transfer trigger signal is coupled to plural master transfer terminals of plural parallel-connected conversion control circui...