US Patent Issued to Leviton Manufacturing on Feb. 17 for "Timing adjustments for accurate zero-crossing determination" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,196, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Timing adjustments for accurate zero-crossing determination" was invented by Brian Anthony Yokum (New Orleans) and Ronald James Gumina (Mandeville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Timing adjustment for accurate zero-crossing determination includes obtaining time offset(s) representing amounts of time between (i) zero-crossings of an input signal waveform, representative of an input AC waveform, input to a zero-crossing detector circuit and (ii) corresponding transitions of an output signal from an output of the circuit to a microcontroller, a...