US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for switching-mode power supply startup" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,872, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for switching-mode power supply startup" was invented by Shengyuan Li (Irvine, Calif.), Leon Samuel Wang (Irvine, Calif.), I-Ning Ku (Irvine, Calif.) and Xicheng Jiang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a circuitry to perform a first startup stage and to vary, during a second startup stage subsequent to the first startup stage, a duty cycle of a pulse controlling one or more switches of the circuitry."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/128,972.

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