ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,134, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Resonant converter having switch on-time control mechanism" was invented by Jing-Yuan Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yan-Cheng Hou (Chiayi County, Taiwan) and Yi-Feng Lin (Yilan County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant converter having a switch on-time control mechanism is provided. The resonant converter includes a primary-side switch circuit, a primary-side resonant circuit, a secondary-side switch circuit, a secondary-side resonant circuit, a transformer and a control circuit. In the resonant converter, the co...