US Patent Issued to PowerX Semiconductor on Oct. 7 for "Voltage converter and adjustment method capable of adjusting zero-crossing reference current" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,434, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PowerX Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Voltage converter and adjustment method capable of adjusting zero-crossing reference current" was invented by Hung-Yuan Chu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chen-Wei Yeh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage converter capable of adjusting a zero-crossing reference current includes a first power switch, a second power switch, a current sensor circuit, a zero-crossing reference current source, and an adjustment circuit. The first power switch and the second power switch are coupled in series to generate an inductor current...