US Patent Issued to Rohm on Sept. 9 for "Power supply control apparatus and switching power supply including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,149, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply control apparatus and switching power supply including the same" was invented by Tadashi Akaho (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasuto Yoshioka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control apparatus, includes: a driver configured to respectively drive an output transistor and a synchronous rectification transistor configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage and supply the output voltage to a load; and a controller configured to, in a light load mode in which output feedback control is performed such that a switching freque...