US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Nov. 18 for "Method and system of reducing total harmonic distortion of power-factor correction converters" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,535, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and system of reducing total harmonic distortion of power-factor correction converters" was invented by Hyunchul Eum (Chandler, Ariz.), Minha Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Dhruv Chopra (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing total harmonic distortion of power-factor correction switching converters. At least one example is a method of operating a power-factor-correction (PFC) converter, the method comprising: charging an inductance of the PFC converter, thereby creating a charge mode; asserting, during the char...