US Patent Issued to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor on Nov. 4 for "Handling connection faults of a bootstrap capacitor in a switching converter" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,528, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Handling connection faults of a bootstrap capacitor in a switching converter" was invented by Arnold J D'Souza (Bangalore, India) and Shyam Somayajula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power stage of a voltage regulator includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in series. The high-side switch and the low-side switch are operated to be ON and OFF to generate an output voltage at an output node of the power stage. The output voltage is derived from an input voltage received at an input node of the power ...