ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,312, issued on July 28, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Power supply with dual conversion circuits and discharge path for output capacitors" was invented by Tzu-Tseng Chan (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chuan-Jung Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply including a first conversion circuit, a second conversion circuit, a first output capacitor, a second output capacitor, a first discharge circuit, and a second discharge circuit is provided. The first conversion circuit converts a first alternating current (AC) power to a first direct ...