US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "Multilevel buck converter with valley current mode control and dual slope compensation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,802, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Multilevel buck converter with valley current mode control and dual slope compensation" was invented by Kuo-Chi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yi-Min Shiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilevel buck converter includes a plurality of switches, an inductor, a flying capacitor, and a control circuit. The plurality of switches are coupled between an input terminal and a ground. The input terminal has an input voltage. The inductor is coupled between the plurality of switches and an output terminal...