ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,717, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Direct current converter, communication device, and photovoltaic system" was invented by Zhengyan He (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct current converter includes a full-bridge inverter, a control module, a transformer, a resonant circuit, and a rectifier module. The full-bridge inverter includes a first switching device, a second switching device, a third switching device, and a fourth switching device. The control module adjusts a duty cycle of the first switching device, the second switching device, the third ...