ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,491, issued on March 17, was assigned to LITE-ON SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Multiple-port bidirectional converter" was invented by Xuan Bac Nguyen (Singapore), Prasanth Thummala (Singapore), Van Tien Le (Singapore) and Cindy Wan Yi Goh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple-port bidirectional converter is provided. The multiple-port bidirectional converter includes a transformer, a primary full-bridge converter, a first high voltage (HV) power converting unit, a second HV power converting unit, a first low voltage (LV) power converting unit, a second LV power converting unit, a full-bridge diode rectifier, and a...