ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,573, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China).

"Control circuit for DC-DC converters with nonlinear adaptive voltage position and control method thereof" was invented by Lijie Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Fangyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Ming Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for a DC-DC converter has an adaptive voltage position (AVP) control circuit and a switching control circuit. The AVP control circuit generates a position signal based on an output voltage, an output current, a voltage identification code and a set of adaptive voltage control c...