ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,302, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fluke Corp. (Everett, Wash.).

"Piece-wise linear control system for a resonant converter" was invented by Jeffrey D. Graw (Woellersdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system controls an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) converter according to a switching method that tunes the output power of the LLC converter based on the required power to be supplied to an output load coupled to the LLC converter. The tuning of the output power is based in part on changing the duty cycle of a switching module. In addition, the output power is adjustable by changing a frequency of switching (...