ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,029, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INTDEVICE Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Soft switching sub-circuit" was invented by Li Jun Yu (Auckland, New Zealand), Hao Hao (Auckland, New Zealand) and Anton Van Vugt (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft switching sub-circuit forming part of or for use with a circuit. The soft switching sub-circuit comprises a bridge switching circuit. The soft switching sub-circuit is configured and operable to provide a varying current output that tracks output current from the bridge switching circuit to create a substantially zero current through at least one switch component of ...