ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,094, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Switching power supply device with noise reduction filter" was invented by Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Takatsuji (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuki Ishikura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power supply device includes power supply input lines, DC output lines, a DC-DC converter circuit, and a noise reduction circuit. The noise reduction circuit includes a first half-bridge capacitor circuit that is connected between the power supply input lines, a second half-bridge capacitor circuit that is connected b...