ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,457, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Power converter and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hsiang-Chueh Meng (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chu-Yen Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a transformer, an inductance-capacitance resonance circuit, a first switch, a second switch, and a controller. The transformer includes a primary-side winding and a secondary-side winding. The inductance-capacitance resonance circuit is coupled to the primary-side winding, and the inductance-capacitance resonance circuit incl...