ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,495, issued on July 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Nagaoka, Japan).

"Pulsed power supply apparatus" was invented by Shingo Tsuda (Tokyo), Taichiro Tamida (Tokyo), Weihua Jiang (Niigata, Japan) and Taichi Sugai (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulsed power supply apparatus includes a plurality of first inductors arranged in a first column in series connection; a plurality of second inductors arranged in a second column in series connection; a plurality of capacitors; a plurality of negative-side switching elements; a plurality ...