US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on April 8 for "Constant time buck-boost switching converter and modulation control circuit and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,031, issued on April 8, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Constant time buck-boost switching converter and modulation control circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Hung-Yu Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Keng-Hong Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A constant time buck-boost switching converter includes: a power switch circuit for switching a first terminal of an inductor between an input voltage and a ground, and for switching a second terminal of the inductor between an output voltage and the ground; and a modulation control circuit for generating a...