ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,494, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Flyback power converter and control method thereof" was invented by Kehua Ma (Shanghai), Daofei Xu (Shanghai) and Haitao Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a flyback power converter is provided. Firstly, a flyback power converter is provided. The flyback power converter includes a transformer, a leakage inductance energy recovery circuit and a control unit. Then, a delayed turn-off time period is defined by the control unit. Then, a detection signal related to a current flowing through the leakage inductance energ...