ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,582, issued on April 14, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Bidirectional low DC-DC converter including lossless snubber circuit, control method of bidirectional LDC and bidirectional LDC system" was invented by AnYeol Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Minseuk Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a bidirectional LDC (Low DC-DC Converter) having opposite ends connected to a high voltage battery and a low voltage battery, respectively, and including a lossless snubber circuit, wherein, when any one of a first synchronous rectifier...