ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,539, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Feedback based zero current detection circuit and synchronous boost converter including the same" was invented by Mihir Dhagat (Bengaluru, India), Ranjith KT (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Kumar Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Subodh Prakash Taigor (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to synchronous boost converters, and to feedback based zero current detection (ZCD) circuits and operation methods for precisely detecting zero current crossing. The feedback based ZCD circuit may improve power effici...