US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Nov. 18 for "Single-inductor multi-output (SIMO) direct current to direct current (DC-DC) buck converter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,540, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Single-inductor multi-output (SIMO) direct current to direct current (DC-DC) buck converter" was invented by Wen-Hau Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Ting Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Yu Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Chieh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Hsuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-inductor multi-output (SIMO) DC-DC buck converter includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, an inductor, an error amplifier circuit, an inductor current ripple emulator circuit, a comparison circuit, and ...