ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,871, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd. (Samutprakarn, Thailand).

"Leakage transformer" was invented by Jakrapong Wongsasulux (Samutprakarn, Thailand) and Chaiwichit Suraprechakul (Samutprakarn, Thailand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leakage transformer is provided. The leakage transformer includes a first plate, a second plate, a plurality of winding pillars, a primary winding, a secondary winding and a plurality of magnetic shunt elements. Each magnetic shunt element is disposed between the two corresponding winding pillars, and there is a gap between every two neighboring magnetic sh...