US Patent Issued to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Control method and control circuit for power factor correction circuit" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,242, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Control method and control circuit for power factor correction circuit" was invented by Po-Ming Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method and a control circuit for a power factor correction (PFC) circuit are provided. The control method for the PFC circuit includes the following steps. Whether a recoverable protection action is occurred or stopped is determined. During the recoverable protection action, a count value is counted. When the recoverable protection action is stopped, a discharge current of an output capacitor of ...