US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Korean University Research and Business Foundation on Jan. 28 for "DC-to-DC converter and integrated circuit including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,242, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Korean University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"DC-to-DC converter and integrated circuit including the same" was invented by Sungmin Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Taehwang Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyeok Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yunho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Woojoong Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct-current (DC)-DC converter includes a converting circuit including an inductor element. The convertin...