ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,390, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co. Ltd. (Sichuan, China).

"Power system and method for adjusting a release voltage of a bi-directional converter" was invented by Yong Zhou (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system having a power input terminal adapted to receive a bus voltage and a sense terminal adapted to receive a sense voltage indicative of the bus voltage. The power system may further include a bi-directional converter having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the bi-directional converter may be coupled to the power input terminal. In an embod...