US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Spread spectrum switching converter and spread spectrum control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,280, issued on May 13, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Spread spectrum switching converter and spread spectrum control method thereof" was invented by Jung-Sheng Chen (Miaoli, Taiwan), Chin-Yen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Jung Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsing-Shen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spread spectrum switching converter converts an input power to an output power. The spread spectrum switching converter includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit and a pulse omission control circuit. The PWM circuit generate an initial PWM signal accordin...