ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,118, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Forward mode soft switching power converter" was invented by InHwan Oh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter can include a half bridge comprising a high side auxiliary switch and a low side main switch, the half bridge having an input coupled to a DC voltage source, a series resonant circuit coupled to the output of the half bridge, the series resonant circuit comprising a resonant capacitor and a primary winding of a transformer, an output coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer by a rectifier, the output delivering a regu...