US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on Sept. 30 for "Switching converter having pulse skipping mode and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,798, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switching converter having pulse skipping mode and control method thereof" was invented by Jung-Sheng Chen (Miaoli, Taiwan), Chin-Chun Chuang (Taichung, Taiwan), Che-Wei Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shi-Xian Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter having pulse skipping mode includes a power stage circuit, a feedback control circuit, an operating signal generator circuit and a pulse skipping circuit. The feedback control circuit generates an initial pulse width modulation (PWM) signal according the output power. ...