US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 12 for "Forward converter and forward power factor corrector" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,235, issued on May 12, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Forward converter and forward power factor corrector" was invented by Wen-Tien Tsai (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Ching-Ran Lee (Kinmen County, Taiwan), Le-Ren Chang-Chien (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Wei Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward converter includes a voltage conversion device, a switch and an auxiliary device. The voltage conversion device includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, and is configured to convert an input voltage into an output voltage. The switch is connected to the voltage...