US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on Nov. 11 for "Multiphase switching converter with stackable controllers" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,145, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Multiphase switching converter with stackable controllers" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fangyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Ming Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a multiphase switching converter has a logic circuit, to provide a plurality of switching control signals to control the plurality of switching circuits. When as a master controller, the controller provides a first total current signal based on a sum of a plurality of currents flowing through the plurality of switching circuit...