ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,208, issued on July 21, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Surge suppressor and method of operating the same" was invented by Sheng-Hua Li (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge suppressor is connected in parallel to a circuit breaker of an input path of a MVAC conversion circuit. The surge suppressor includes a plurality of surge suppression circuits, and each surge suppression circuit includes a rectification circuit, a switch, a controller, and a conversion circuit. The rectification circuit includes an AC terminal and a rectification terminal, and the AC terminals of the surge su...