US Patent Issued to ELITE SEMICONDUCTOR MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Bootstrap device and buck-boost converter" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,124, issued on July 1, was assigned to ELITE SEMICONDUCTOR MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bootstrap device and buck-boost converter" was invented by Yao-Wei Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bootstrap device used for first and second transistors of a buck-boost converter includes first and second bootstrap circuits. The first bootstrap circuit generates a first bootstrap voltage, and determines, based on a change among a first switching voltage, a voltage level of a source terminal of the first transistor and the first bootstrap voltage, whether to charge according to at least one of a DC inp...