ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,556, issued on July 7, was assigned to ALTENERGY POWER SYSTEM INC. (Jiaxing, China).

"Switching tube control method and device, and direct-current converter" was invented by Yongchun Yang (Jiaxing, China), Shuozu He (Jiaxing, China) and Yuhao Luo (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching tube control method and device, and a direct-current converter. In the solution, after a switching tube on a leading bridge arm in a phase-shifted full-bridge converter is disconnected and a current on a transformer is not greater than a current preset value, a corresponding switching tube on a lagging bridge arm is controlled to be d...