US Patent Issued to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems on Oct. 7 for "Integrated circuit control device for multi-phase switching converters and control method thereof" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,466, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China).

"Integrated circuit control device for multi-phase switching converters and control method thereof" was invented by Huichun Dai (Hangzhou, China), Wangmiao Hu (Hangzhou, China), Fangyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Keke Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Lijie Jiang (Hangzhou, China) and Jinghai Zhou (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) control device for a multi-phase switching converter having a master phase and at least one slave phase, has a first ON-time control circuit to provide a first ON-time control signal...