ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,038, issued on April 8, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Resonant flyback power converter and switching control circuit and method thereof" was invented by Yu-Chang Chen (Nanto, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kun-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsin-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant flyback power converter includes: a first transistor and a second transistor which are configured to switch a transformer and a resonant capacitor for generating an output voltage; and a switching control circuit generating first and second driving signals for controlling the first and the s...