US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Buck converter including a bootstrap capacitor and an operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,369, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Buck converter including a bootstrap capacitor and an operating method thereof" was invented by Kyeseok Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyebong Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Jinwoo So (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyoungseok Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Daewoong Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jungwook Heo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buck converter including: a first switching element connecting an input voltage node to a switching node; a second switching element connecting the switching node to a ground node; a low dro...