US Patent Issued to DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET on May 6 for "Charge-pump based AC-DC power converter with power factor correction and optimized current paths" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,297, issued on May 6, was assigned to DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Charge-pump based AC-DC power converter with power factor correction and optimized current paths" was invented by Ahmed Morsi Ammar (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), Yasser A. A. Nour (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), Arnold Knott (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) and Frederik Monrad Spliid (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AC-DC power converter includes: an AC rectification circuit configured to convert an AC line voltage into a rectified line voltage; a charge-pump-based power factor correction sub-converter configured to provide a DC...