ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,316, issued on July 22, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power supply device" was invented by Xiaochen Zhang (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one first power converter of a plurality of power converters has a charging mode and a standby mode, the charging mode being a mode of converting AC power supplied from an AC power supply through a switch into DC power and storing the DC power in a corresponding power storage device, the standby mode being a mode of generating a control signal for power conversion and awaiting the power conversion. When an AC voltage supplied from the AC power supply is normal, a con...