ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,521, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ACBEL POLYTECH INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Current sampling circuit for bridgeless power factor corrector" was invented by Bing-Kun Lai (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Hsiao Luo (New Taipei, Taiwan) and I-Hsiu Lo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sampling circuit for a bridgeless power factor corrector is provided. The current sampling circuit comprises a sampling resistor, a first and second current sampling modules. In the first and second current sampling modules, primary windings of transformers are respectively serially connected to a first and second fast switches of ...