ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,913, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Resonant switched capacitor voltage converter and control method thereof" was invented by Kuo-Chi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wei-Hsu Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chao-Chi Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a resonant switched capacitor voltage converter (RSCC), which is coupled to and operates synchronously with another RSCC. The RSCC includes: plural switches, a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the switches, so th...