US Patent Issued to Amber Semiconductor on Aug. 25 for "AC-to-DC power conversion with ground reference to common node of solid-state AC switch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,348, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amber Semiconductor Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"AC-to-DC power conversion with ground reference to common node of solid-state AC switch" was invented by Mark Telefus (Orinda, Calif.), Nicholas Joseph Layshot (Grass Valley, Calif.) and Harry Rodriguez (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to utilize a common node of a solid-state AC switch as a DC ground reference node for DC power generation and control circuitry of an intelligent electrical device (e.g., intelligent dimmer switch, intelligent circuit breaker, etc.). For example, a device comprises a solid-state A...