ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,684, issued on April 22, was assigned to BorgWarner Luxembourg Automotive Systems SA (Bascharage, Luxembourg).

"Systems and methods for universal input power supply bi-directional battery charger" was invented by Venkata Jaya Sai Praneeth Ammanamanchi (Lamadelaine, Luxembourg) and Alexandre M. S. Reis (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an AC to DC PFC converter includes a first phase switch group connected to a first node to receive power from a first phase of a voltage source; a second phase switch group connected to a second node to receive power from a second phase of the voltage source; a third phase swit...