ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,041, issued on April 29, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for determining mains voltage of a power supply" was invented by Bernd Clauberg (Schaumburg, Ill.), Yuhong Fang (Naperville, Ill.) and Ashwin Premraj (Des Plaines, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary side controller configured to determine a peak voltage and/or a frequency of a secondary side winding of a power supply converter over a predetermined period of time, wherein, when the converter is in the burst mode, the secondary side controller is configured to instruct a primary side controller to increase the set poin...