US Patent Issued to Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International on Aug. 12 for "Switch mode power converter with synchronous rectifier implementing adaptive turn-off voltage" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,373, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP (Toronto).

"Switch mode power converter with synchronous rectifier implementing adaptive turn-off voltage" was invented by Yu Ding (Shanghai), Sitthipong Angkititrakul (Dublin, Calif.) and Jian Yin (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter incorporating a synchronous rectifier implements adaptive turn-off voltage control for fast turn-off of the synchronous rectifier in the continuous conduction mode. In some embodiments, the synchronous rectifier turn off detection threshold is adaptively changed as a function of the dete...