ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,536, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power unit and solid-state transformer" was invented by Biao Ren (Shenzhen, China) and Zhuyong Huang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power unit and a solid-state transformer supply power to a control module in the power unit by using a first subsidiary power supply circuit and a second subsidiary power supply circuit and improve operation reliability of the power unit. The power unit may include the first subsidiary power supply circuit and a first power circuit. The first power circuit includes an alternating cu...