ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,591, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switching power converter and conversion control circuit thereof" was invented by Po-Yen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsing-Shen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion control circuit, configured to control a switching power converter, includes a trigger signal generation circuit, an on-time control circuit, and a logic driver circuit. The trigger signal generation circuit is configured to generate a turn-on trigger signal. The on-time control circuit is configured to generate a turn-off trigger signal to determine the on-time...