US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Switching converter and control circuit and discontinuous conduction mode control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,087, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switching converter and control circuit and discontinuous conduction mode control method thereof" was invented by Chun-Lien Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Jen Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chong-Rong Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter includes: a power stage circuit configured to switch at least one switch of the power stage circuit according to a control signal, to convert an input voltage to an output voltage; and a control circuit configured to execute modulation on a pulse width according to a feedback volta...