ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,370, issued on July 22, was assigned to FADU Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"DC/DC converter for providing maximum efficiency in various load current ranges" was invented by Seonho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinup Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongchul Chae (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kichang Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a direct current/direct current (DC/DC) converter. According to the present invention, output ends of a plurality of converter circuits, each having two switches in a single fabricated integrated circuit (IC), are integrated by selectively connecting them to ea...