ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,128, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Switching power supply circuit and switching power supply system having the same" was invented by Saiki Shigemori (Tokyo) and Akihiro Unno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a switching power supply circuit that includes a switching circuit having an input node connected to an input power supply terminal and an output node connected to an output power supply terminal through an output switch, a feedback circuit configured to feed back information based on a voltage appearing at a control node to the switching circuit, and an activation circuit configur...