US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Hybrid switching converter circuit having circulation current" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,327, issued on June 30, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Hybrid switching converter circuit having circulation current" was invented by Chun-Jen Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chi-Jen Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tao-Cheng Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Wei Chung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter circuit includes: a power stage circuit and a current sensing circuit. The power stage circuit includes plural power switches, which include a circulation switch. The circulation switch is coupled in parallel to an inductor. When the circulation switch is turned ON, the inductor and the...