ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,914, issued on March 11, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Quick response switching power converter and conversion control circuit thereof" was invented by Hsien-Cheng Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chieh-Han Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsing-Shen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion control circuit controls a power stage circuit of a switching power converter according to a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal, wherein the conversion control circuit includes an error amplifier circuit, a ramp signal generation circuit, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a quick respo...