US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Oct. 7 for "Power factor correction system, controller and method of controlling a power factor correction system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,449, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Power factor correction system, controller and method of controlling a power factor correction system" was invented by Andrey Malinin (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Renato Bessegato (Oberhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase PFC (power factor correction) system, controller, and method of controlling the multi-phase PFC system are described. The method includes operating the phases under variable frequency control to interleave current delivered by the plurality of phases to a load. During a switching cycle for the phases, a ...