ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,167, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Detecting a short in a power supply unit" was invented by Tongsheng Guo (Shanghai) and Ruifeng Jin (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting a short in a PSU, including setting an input of a relay to establish a first power path between an input of the PSU and a low voltage output of an auxiliary PSU; receiving an input power signal and converting a first voltage of the input power signal to a second voltage; outputting, at the low voltage output, an output power signal having the second voltage to provide the output power signal through a resistor ...