US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 1 for "Transitional USB PD (power delivery) dual port receptacle with smart bypass circuit" (Czech, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,121, issued on July 1, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Transitional USB PD (power delivery) dual port receptacle with smart bypass circuit" was invented by Nilesh Ankush Kadam (Pune, India) and Stanislav Popelka (Zatec, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transitional USB receptacle has one USB PD port and one USB-C port (non-PD). The receptacle includes flyback topology for AC/DC conversion, a bypass circuit, a buck converter, and a USB controller that determines the voltage demands of external devices connected to the USB-C and PD ports. The flyback topology uses a transformer with two sets of win...