ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,998, issued on July 22, was assigned to CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Transformer" was invented by Yen-Shin Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Yong-Yi Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hao-Chieh Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer includes a magnetic core set and 2N pairs of windings. The magnetic core set includes a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core, a first magnetic column, and a second magnetic column. Each of the pairs of windings includes a high-voltage side winding and a low-voltage side winding. Each of the pairs o...