US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Cross conduction prevention in power converters" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,764, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross conduction prevention in power converters" was invented by Akshay Nayaknur (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a power converter includes a primary controller and a secondary controller. The primary controller is coupled to a primary winding of the energy transfer element and a primary switch of the power converter. The secondary controller is coupled to a secondary winding of the energy transfer element and a secondary switch, e.g., a synchronous rectifier, of the power converter. The secondary controller has a s...