ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,071, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Power converter 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 includes a power factor correction (PFC) circuit and a controller. The controller acquires a switching frequency based on an instantaneous value of the input voltage, and acquires an upper limit frequency and a lower limit frequency based on an effective value of an input current. When the controller determines that the effective value is gr...