US Patent Issued to Ark HDPS Semiconductor Pte. Ltd. on March 31 for "Asymmetric half-bridge power supplies and control methods thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,650, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ark HDPS Semiconductor Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Asymmetric half-bridge power supplies and control methods thereof" was invented by Yi-Lun Shen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Yun Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method is disclosed for an asymmetric half-bridge power supply having a resonant circuit, a first switch, a second switch, and an assisting switch. The resonant circuit includes a transformer and a resonance capacitor. The transformer has a primary winding connected to the resonance capacitor and an auxiliary winding connected to the assisting switch. Within a swi...