ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,107, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Power supply control device and switching power supply apparatus" was invented by Kiminobu Sato (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a switching power supply apparatus configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage, the output voltage is obtained by rectifying and smoothing a switch voltage obtained by alternately turned on and off first and second transistors connected in series to each other in accordance with the output voltage. A light-load support circuit includes a reverse current detection circuit that outputs a reverse current de...