ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,794, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).
"LLC converter with protection circuit" was invented by Andrey Malinin (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LLC (inductor-inductor-capacitor) converter, including: a primary current sensing circuit operable to sense a primary current of the LLC converter; and a protection circuit coupled between the primary current sensing circuit and power switches of the LLC converter, and operable to increase a switching frequency of the LLC converter when an amplitude of the primary current falls below a predefined low current referenc...