ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,823, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"DC-DC buck converter and operating method thereof" was invented by Sungmin Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Woojoong Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Taehwang Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyeok Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Yunho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC buck converter for generating an output voltage by stepping down an input voltage includes a converting circuit including a plurality of transistors, a ...