ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,811, issued on March 3, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Resonant converter switching between different operational state modes" was invented by Jing-Yuan Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Sheng Hsu (Keelung City, Taiwan) and Yi-Feng Lin (Yilan County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant converter switching between different operational state modes is provided. The resonant converter includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a control circuit, a resonant circuit, a transformer and an output stage circuit. A first terminal of the first transistor and a s...