ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,039, issued on June 2, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas) and BCD Shanghai Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Switching power supply and control method thereof" was invented by Cong Zou (Shanghai), Sen Dou (Shanghai) and Shaohua Peng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching power supply includes a secondary control circuit coupled to a secondary side of a transformer of the switching power supply, and a primary control circuit coupled to a primary side of the transformer. The secondary control circuit is configured to receive a power request signal of a load device, and encode the power request signal to gener...