ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,113, issued on May 13, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Discontinuous current mode DC-DC converter" was invented by Kuan-Yu Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-An Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jun Yu (Singapore) and Chih-Chen Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discontinuous current mode (DCM) DC-DC converter with high efficiency is shown, which includes an inductor, power transistors providing a charging path and a discharging path for an output voltage of the DCM DC-DC converter through the inductor, a driver driving the power transistors, a load detector, and a dynamic driver controller. The load detector determ...