ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,141, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Halo Microelectronics Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China).

"Switch control method and hybrid voltage converter" was invented by Shuang Han (Foshan, China) and Songnan Yang (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch control method is applied to a hybrid voltage converter including a switched capacitor unit and a freewheeling unit. The method including obtaining the output current of the hybrid voltage converter, when the output current is greater than a first current threshold, controlling the switches in the hybrid voltage converter to operate in parallel conduction mode, when the output curre...