US Patent Issued to Advanced Energy Industries on Jan. 13 for "Active switch leakage current diversion" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,976, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Denver).

"Active switch leakage current diversion" was invented by Mark Corpuz (Cork, Ireland), Robert Ryan (Cork, Ireland), Jack William Bermingham (Kinsdale, Ireland) and Andrejs Gasilovs (Midleton, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply component comprising a supply node to provide a supply voltage and a supply line to provide a source voltage. The supply line comprising a source node that has a source voltage, and the supply line includes a supply line switch coupled between the source node and the supply node, wherein the supply line switch c...