US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on March 18 for "Power converter with loading detector for enhancing conversion efficiency" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,533, issued on March 18, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power converter with loading detector for enhancing conversion efficiency" was invented by Yi-Meng Lan (Tainan, Taiwan), Yung-Chou Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tuo-Kuang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Yang Kang (Baoshan Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a high side switch, a low side switch, a low side driver, a loading detector, a configurable regulator and a high side driver. The low side driver generates a low side drive signal to control the low side switch. The configurable regulator ...