US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 26 for "Switching converter having linear conversion function and conversion control circuit and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,282, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Switching converter having linear conversion function and conversion control circuit and method thereof" was invented by San-Hsien Liu (Taichung, Taiwan), Che-Wei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Po-Chin Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter for converting an input voltage to an output voltage includes: a power stage circuit which includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch and an auxiliary transistor; and a conversion control circuit for controlling the high-side switch, the low-side switch and the auxiliary transistor....