ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,531, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Current-detecting method for overcoming the limitations of lower-arm current detection" was invented by Yu-Ling Lee (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ching-Chang Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shih-Hao Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Zhi-Xiang Liu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Yu-Shian Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current detection method adapted to an inverter is provided, which includes: determining that a plurality of lower arms of an inverter have a minimum conduction period when all the lower arms are turned on simultaneously; de...