US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 25 for "System and method for virtual resistance" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,365, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for virtual resistance" was invented by Chin-Hong Cheah (Gelugor, Malaysia), Tatt-Wee Oong (Georgetown, Malaysia), Hao-Jie Chan (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia) and Siew-Leong Lam (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system exhibits improved dynamic performance in a constant voltage (CV) control mode that is also invariant of the source type and operating points. The improvements may be achieved with minimal or potentially no additional parts to the control circuit by replacing a voltage-controlled current source w...