US Patent Issued to Delta Electronics on Jan. 20 for "Single-stage bidirectional power supply" (Dutch, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,467, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Single-stage bidirectional power supply" was invented by Misha Kumar (Cary, N.C.), Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa (Cary, N.C.), Sergio Fernandez Rojas (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Chao-Jui Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional power supply includes an alternating current (AC) port as a source in a first mode and as a load in a second mode and a line-frequency rectifier/inverter to function as a rectifier in the first mode and a set of switches to function as an inverter in the second mode. A bidirectional resonant converter is...