ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,035, issued on April 8, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Control circuit and method for use in stackable multiphase power converter" was invented by Ta-Yung Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsu Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Chi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chao-Chi Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion control circuit controls plural stackable sub-converters which are coupled in parallel to generate an output power to a load, the conversion control circuit includes: a current sharing terminal, wherein a current sharing signal is configured to be connected to the current sharing terminals...