ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,847, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Buck converter, method of operating the same and electronic device including the same" was invented by Hongseok Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck converter includes a power switching circuit that alternately transfers an input voltage and a ground voltage to an output terminal in response to a pulse switching signal, an LC filter, one end of which is connected to the output terminal, a sensing voltage generator that generates voltages corresponding to changes in an inductor current between the output termin...