ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,450, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Switching converter circuit capable of preventing burst pulses" was invented by I-Fang Lo (Keelung, Taiwan) and Hung-Yu Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter circuit for converting an input voltage to an output voltage includes: a feedback compensation circuit for producing a feedback compensation signal according to a difference between a feedback signal related to the output voltage and a reference signal; a modulation circuit for generating a modulation signal in accordance with the feedback compensation signal ...