US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Jan. 20 for "Asymmetric half bridge flyback converter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,488, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Asymmetric half bridge flyback converter" was invented by Alfredo Medina-Garcia (Munich), Martin Kruger (OberschleiBheim, Germany) and Marc Fahlenkamp (Geretsried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asymmetric half bridge flyback converter, comprising a first primary side switching device and a second primary side switching device coupled in series between a supply voltage and a reference potential, a transformer, wherein one end of a primary side winding of the transformer is coupled to a node between the first primary side switching...