ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,711, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Resonant converter" was invented by Yufei Zhou (Shanghai) and Hui Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant converter has a resonant capacitor between the input stage and the output stage. An output inductor arrangement of the output stage has a first inductor component and a second inductor component. A first output is coupled to a reference output by both of the first and second inductor components in series and connects to a first load with a first (high) forward voltage. A second output is coupled to the reference output by only ...