US Patent Issued to Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology on May 27 for "Inductor driving device and inductor driving method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,028, issued on May 27, was assigned to Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Inductor driving device and inductor driving method" was invented by Ming-Fu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sheng-Hung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor driving device includes multiple switching elements and a control circuit, wherein an inductor is driven according to switching of the multiple switching elements. The control circuit is arranged to generate a control signal for controlling the multiple switching elements. In a first mode, the control signal has a constant frequency. In a second mo...