ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,519, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).
"Switching DC-to-DC converter" was invented by Shei-Chie Yang (Taichung, Taiwan), Yuan-Yen Mai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Pao-Hsun Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching DC-to-DC converter, in which the control circuit of the switch is powered by an adaptively regulated voltage. A voltage regulator that provides the adaptively regulated voltage has a first receiving terminal coupled to an input terminal of the switching DC-to-DC converter, a second receiving terminal coupled to an output terminal of the switching DC-to-DC converter, a...