ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,467, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STMicroelectronics LTD (Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong).
"Voltage converter" was invented by Laurent Gonthier (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a circuit for converting from a first alternating voltage to a second voltage. The circuit includes: a first thyristor; a first control circuit of the first thyristor; a power factor correction circuit comprising a coil; and a first circuit configured to convert a third voltage into a fourth DC voltage. The third voltage corresponds to a difference between a potential at a first node connected to an output node of ...