US Patent Issued to Nanowatt on May 13 for "AC-DC converter with adaptive regulation circuit" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,124, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nanowatt Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"AC-DC converter with adaptive regulation circuit" was invented by Wenbo Liang (San Jose, Calif.), Edward Er Deng (Los Altos, Calif.), Ying Li (Shanghai) and San Hwa Chee (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AC-DC converter includes an AC voltage source, a rectifier, and a rectifier control circuit. The rectifier includes a field effect transistor (FET) having a source, a drain, and a gate. The drain of the FET is coupled to the AC voltage source, and the source is coupled to ground. The rectifier control circuit is coupled to the gate of the FET...