ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,888, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nanjing Chervon Industry Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Bidirectional power supply apparatus" was invented by Hong Zhu (Nanjing, China), Qing Gao (Nanjing, China), Mingyang Chen (Nanjing, China), He Huang (Nanjing, China), Zhijian Lu (Nanjing, China) and Yiwen Xiao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional power supply apparatus includes: an alternating current input port for inputting an alternating current to the bidirectional power supply apparatus; an alternating current output port for outputting the alternating current to an alternating current device; a direct current i...