ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,470, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Power supply system" was invented by Wei-Hsu Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shih-Ho Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Mao-Hui Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes a power factor correction converter circuit and an isolated power converter circuit, wherein the power factor correction converter circuit corrects the power factor of a rectified power to generate a first output power, and the isolated power converter circuit converts the first output power to generate a second output power...