US Patent Issued to Datalogic IP Tech on May 20 for "Power supply having low standby power consumption" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,693, issued on May 20, was assigned to Datalogic IP Tech S.r.l. (Bologna, Italy).

"Power supply having low standby power consumption" was invented by Sandro Codato (Mestre, Italy), Paolo Mazzocato (Casier, Italy) and Franco Favaro (Venice, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein relates to methods and systems for reducing standby power consumed by electronic devices. A control unit is powered by a control unit power source. The control unit power source, in some embodiments, comprises a first photovoltaic driver and a second photovoltaic driver mounted in an anti-parallel configuration. In other embodimen...