ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,786, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Joulwatt Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Control circuit and control method for switched capacitor converter" was invented by Pitleong Wong (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit and control method for a switched capacitor converter (SCC) are provided. An adjustment circuit makes adjustment with a small pull-down current, such that two terminal voltages of a flying capacitor are consistent with an output voltage. Before the SCC works formally for voltage conversion, the two terminal voltages of the flying capacitor are the same as the output voltage."

The p...