ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,530, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Totem-pole PFC circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Yung-Sheng Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Liang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A totem-pole PFC circuit and a control method thereof are provided. The circuit includes an AC power source, first and second bridge arms and a controller. The first bridge arm includes first and second switches electrically connected in series with a connection node electrically connected to a first terminal of the AC power source. The second bridge arm includes third and fourth switches e...