US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on July 15 for "Switching regulator and control circuit and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,670, issued on July 15, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switching regulator and control circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Pao-Hsun Yu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shei-Chie Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Yen Mai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching regulator includes a boost power stage circuit and a control circuit. The boost power stage circuit includes: at least one power switch configured to switch a terminal of an inductor according to an operation signal during a normal operation period, such that the terminal of the inductor is switch...