ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,026, issued on April 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Step-down converter including a step-down transformer and a resin molded body" was invented by Hirofumi Inoue (Tokyo) and Kosuke Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a step-down converter including: a step-down transformer including a primary-side coil and a secondary-side coil; a resin molded body integrally molded through use of a non-conductive resin together with the primary-side coil and the secondary-side coil; and a rectifier element, wherein the resin molded body has a mounting surface on which the rectifier element is to be mounted...