ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,530, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HANGZHOU BRIGHT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Inductor current reconstruction circuit and method for use in switched-mode power supply" was invented by Xiaohua Su (Zhejiang, China) and Linbo Wang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor current reconstruction circuit for use in switched-mode power supply, as well as a reconstruction method thereof are disclosed. In reconstruction circuit, an inductor current sampling circuit is employed to detect current through switch transistor during on-time and thereby output sampled voltage, and a slope of sampled volt...