ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,693, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Switching control system" was invented by Yen-Shin Lai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Jian-Hua Lu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Xian Zeng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching control system, including: switch units, configured to separately receive one of alternating currents and couple to a load; a detection unit, configured to detect the alternating currents; and a control unit, configured to, after receiving a switching signal, and in response to...