ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,986, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power supply device, operation method thereof, and display device" was invented by Seunghun Baek (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device comprises: an EMI filter; a rectification unit for rectifying an AC voltage that has passed through the EMI filter; a power factor correction unit for carrying out power factor correction for the rectified voltage, thereby outputting a DC voltage; and a control circuit for controlling the power factor correction unit. The power factor correction unit comprises: a capacitor connected to a...