US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on Nov. 25 for "Timing controller for power converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,115, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Timing controller for power converter" was invented by Ching-Jan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh-Ju Tsai (Kinmen County, Taiwan) and Ching-Yang Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a power stage, a feedback circuit, a ramp generator and a controller. The power stage generates a pulse width modulation signal for forming an output voltage. The controller includes a comparator, a control logic circuit, an on-time generator and an off-time generator. The comparator generates a comparison signal according to a...