US Patent Issued to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) on July 1 for "Switched capacitor voltage converter" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,120, issued on July 1, was assigned to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Switched capacitor voltage converter" was invented by Wei Zhao (Shanghai) and Xing Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor voltage converter includes an inductor and a plurality of switch transistors between two branches of a conventional parallel switched capacitor voltage converter, by controlling a turning on and off of the plurality of switch transistors, electric charges on a parasitic capacitor of a first branch are completely transferred to a second branch via the inductor within a period of tim...