ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,475, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for reducing stand-by power consumption in isolated power conversion system" was invented by Feng-Jung Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Adrian Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ko-Yen Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Jen Su (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Hao-Ming Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a secondary controller coupled to a secondary circuit of a power conversion system, and a primary controller coupled to a primary circuit of the power conversion system, the primary controller being coupled to the secondary control...