ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,683, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Power conversion system and method thereof" was invented by Tsan-Huei Wu (Yunlin, Taiwan), Tsung-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ye-Sing Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion system includes: first and second switches, a switching power converter, a battery switch and a conversion control circuit. In an external power mode, the first and second switches are controlled to generate an intermediate power from a first power and generate a second power from the intermediate power for powering an external load. In a battery p...