ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,577, issued on April 14, was assigned to CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Asymmetric half-bridge flyback power converter and method of operating the same" was invented by Min-Han Lee (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Meng-Yuan Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asymmetric half-bridge flyback power converter includes a transformer, a resonant circuit, a first switch, a second switch, a discharging switch, an energy storage capacitor, and a controller. The first switch and the second switch are connected in series at a node, and the resonant circuit is coupled between the node and ...