ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,817, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Flyback power converter and secondary side power supply circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Shin-Li Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), He-Yi Shu (Nantou, Taiwan), Shih-Jen Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Min Shiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Ching Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chieh Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chao-Chi Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flyback power converter includes a power transformer, a first lossless voltage conversion circuit, a first low-dropout linear regulator and a secondary ...