ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,258, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Synchronous rectifier control for secondary side turn-on protection" was invented by Wee Tar Richard Ng (Singapore) and Andrey Malinin (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller associated with a power supply determines a first ratio value. The first ratio value may be a ratio of a second time duration with respect to a first time duration, where the second time duration is a measured time duration associated with demagnetizing of a transformer in a first control cycle. The first time duration may be a measured time dur...