US Patent Issued to UPI SEMICONDUCTOR on May 20 for "Controller of power conversion circuit and operating method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,731, issued on May 20, was assigned to UPI SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Controller of power conversion circuit and operating method thereof" was invented by Chih-Lien Chang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiu Hung (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yen-Chih Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chen-Xiu Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a power conversion circuit, coupled to a smart power stage (SPS), controls SPS to convert an input voltage into an output voltage and provides an output current. The SPS provides a current monitoring signal to the controller. The controller includes a control loop, a sampling circuit and a current...