ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,799, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Power converter having overvoltage protection mechanism" was invented by Chih-Ning Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter having an overvoltage protection mechanism is provided. A node between a second terminal of the high-side switch and a first terminal of a low-side switch is connected to an inductor. When an output current or an output voltage of the power converter must be released, the output current of the power converter flows to the input power source sequentially through the inductor, the high-side switch being...