ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,514, issued on March 25, was assigned to POWER LSI Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Zero standby power system" was invented by Won Tae Lee (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Won Ji Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Chuen Sik Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gyu Won Lee (Guri-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a zero standby power system, comprising a power supply device comprising a plurality of power stages and a zero standby power device configured to receive an on/off signal and to control connections respectively to the plurality of power stages based on the received on/off signal,...