ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,106, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Multi-phase voltage converter" was invented by Shengfu Hsiao (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chiachi Liu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Liwen Liu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Jianan Pan (Keelung City, Taiwan), Yajing Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chen Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase voltage converter can include: a control chip configured to generate N pulse distribution signals, where N is a positive integer greater than 1; a power conversion module comprising N first-level conversion modules; where the ...