US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Ultra-low quiescent current buck converter with switchable comparator" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,512, issued on June 23, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Ultra-low quiescent current buck converter with switchable comparator" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Liu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yung-Chun Chuang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck converter includes a power stage, a feedback network coupled to the power stage, a control loop, a logic circuit coupled to the control loop, a driver circuit coupled between the logic circuit and the power stage, and a load detection circuit. The power stage includes an input terminal for receiving an input voltage, and an output terminal f...