US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on July 1 for "Multiphase switching converter with fault detection and fault detection method thereof" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,145, issued on July 1, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China).

"Multiphase switching converter with fault detection and fault detection method thereof" was invented by Wangmiao Hu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection method for a multiphase switching converter with a plurality of switching circuits. The fault detection method includes the following steps. 1) Generate a comparing signal by comparing a corresponding current reference signal with a corresponding current sensing signal indicative of a current flowing through a corresponding switching circuit. 2) Generate a d...