ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,820, issued on May 19, was assigned to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Switching power supply and method for controlling switching power supply" was invented by Lin Feng (Shanghai), Jianlong Gao (Shanghai) and Yuang Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a switching power supply and a control method thereof. The method includes: upon startup of the switching power supply, sending a first handshake signal to a primary control module to control a primary master control power transistor to stop a switching operation; upon elapse of a first duration, in response to a voltage value ...