US Patent Issued to pSemi on Sept. 23 for "Startup of switched capacitor step-down power converter" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,936, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Startup of switched capacitor step-down power converter" was invented by Aichen Low (Cambridge, Mass.), Walid Fouad Mohamed Aboueldahab (Wokingham, Great Britain) and Gregory Szczeszynski (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuit embodiments for a switched-capacitor power converter, and/or methods of operation of such a converter, that robustly deal with various startup scenarios, are efficient and low cost, and have quick startup times to steady-state converter operation. Embodiments prevent full charge pump capacitor discharge during shutdown of a conver...