ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,533, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LEADTREND TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Power supplies with multiple output ports, and control methods thereof" was invented by Hung-Ching Lee (Zhubei, Taiwan), Ming-Chang Tsou (Zhubei, Taiwan), Hsien-Te Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Shih Yi Yang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply has multiple DC power sources converted from an AC power source. The power supply has an isolated converter converting the AC power source into an intermediate DC power source, and non-isolated converters converting the intermediate DC power source into the DC power sources, regulated at ...