ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,346, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Power converter with reduced power consumption and method of operating the same" was invented by Shang-Kay Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hsien-Kai Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Wei Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter with reduced power consumption receives an input voltage and provides an output voltage to supply power to a load. The power converter includes a power factor correction circuit, a driver circuit, and a controller. The power factor correction circuit includes at least one inductor and an output capacitor. When ...