US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 29 for "Power stealing using a current transformer" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,047, issued on April 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Power stealing using a current transformer" was invented by Navaneeth Kumar Narayanasamy (Coimbatore, India) and Manu Balakrishnan (Kollam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first rectifier having a first rectifier input and a first rectifier output. The circuit also includes a bridge circuit and a second rectifier. The bridge circuit is coupled to the first rectifier output. The bridge circuit has first, second, third, and fourth terminals. The first and second terminals are coupled to the first rectifier output, and the third and fourt...