ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,115, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Bidirectional voltage conversion device" was invented by Wei-Hua Chieng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Edward Yi Chang (Baoshan Township, Taiwan), Stone Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yao Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yueh-Tsung Shieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Li-Chuan Tang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Wu (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Wen-Yuh Shieh (Baoshan Township, Taiwan), Chi-Chun Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Gang-Ting Liou (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional voltage conversion device includes a...