US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on May 6 for "Buck-boost switching regulator capable of damping out the ringing and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,304, issued on May 6, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Buck-boost switching regulator capable of damping out the ringing and control method thereof" was invented by Shei-Chie Yang (Taichung, Taiwan), Yuan-Yen Mai (Taipei, Taiwan), Pao-Hsun Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hung Hsu (Changhua, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck-boost switching regulator includes: a power switch circuit including an input switch unit and an output switch unit; a bypass control circuit configured to operably generate a bypass control signal according to a conversion voltage difference between an input voltage of an inpu...