US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on Jan. 27 for "Control of a resonant converter using switch paths during power-up" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,454, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control of a resonant converter using switch paths during power-up" was invented by Robert J. Mayell (Los Altos, Calif.), Yueming Wang (Gilroy, Calif.), Hartley Fred Horwitz (Ottawa) and Paul Demone (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of a resonant power converter using switch paths during power-up is described herein. During power-up, a first switch path sinks current away from a resonant capacitor while a second switch path sources current to a high-side capacitor. In this way the high-side capacitor may predictably charge to suf...