ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,124, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Boost converter power stage circuit" was invented by Ching-Jan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh-Ju Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Sheng-Han Yu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a boost converter power stage circuit, comprising: an organic light-emitting diode power management integrated circuit unit, a switched capacitor converter, and a boost converter, wherein, a flying capacitor is used to boost the voltage of the inductor to twice the voltage, and then the positive voltage of the output voltage source is boost...