US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Magnetic saturation detector with single and multiple transverse windings" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,157, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic saturation detector with single and multiple transverse windings" was invented by William M. Polivka (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic saturation detectors for power converters are presented herein. An energy transfer element has an input power winding wrapped around a center post. Single or multiple transverse windings are positioned perpendicular to the input power winding and coupled to receive a transverse current that provides a transverse magnetic flux density within the energy transfer element. The transverse ...