US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Nov. 25 for "Charger capable of bidirectional power transfer" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,054, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Charger capable of bidirectional power transfer" was invented by Dong Gyun Woo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyun Wook Seong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jae Hyun Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a charger capable of bidirectional power transfer. A power factor compensation circuit converts a multi-phase AC voltage into a DC voltage and includes a plurality of inductors and a plurality of switching elements. The DC voltage converted by the power factor compensation circuit...