US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on March 25 for "USB power supply circuit with idle power distribution and the method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,837, issued on March 25, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China).

"USB power supply circuit with idle power distribution and the method thereof" was invented by Peijian Ding (Chengdu, China), Junyong Gong (Chengdu, China), Huan Liu (Chengdu, China) and Shuai Yuan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A USB power supply circuit is discussed. The circuit has at least two power converters and a controller. The controller controls the power converters to provide required output powers to devices attached to the controller and monitors the provided output powers. If one of the power converters ...