US Patent Issued to MINEBEA POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE on March 31 for "Rectifier circuit and power supply using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,651, issued on March 31, was assigned to MINEBEA POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INC. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Rectifier circuit and power supply using same" was invented by Yoshihiro Miwa (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Shoji (Tokyo), Junichi Sakano (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Utsumi (Hitachi, Japan) and Takahiro Higuchi (Hitachi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit are provided; the second MOSFET is in a non-rectification period when the first MOSFET is in a rectification period; the first MOSFET is in a non-rectification period when the second MOSFET is in a rectification perio...