US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on March 3 for "Switching regulator and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,792, issued on March 3, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Switching regulator and control method thereof" was invented by Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Pin Tseng (Miaoli, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching regulator includes: a power stage circuit configured to operably control a power switch therein according to a pulse width modulation signal to switch an inductor coupled to a phase node, so as to convert an input voltage to an output voltage; and a control circuit configured to operably determine an equivalent capacitance adjustment procedure to enter or sustain an enabled s...