US Patent Issued to Navitas Semiconductor on Oct. 27 for "Synchronous rectifier circuit powered by a portion of secondary windings" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,718, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. (Dublin).

"Synchronous rectifier circuit powered by a portion of secondary windings" was invented by Xiucheng Huang (Torrance, Calif.), Yun Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Weijing Du (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous rectifier circuit is self-powered by a portion of a secondary winding. A transformer has a primary winding arranged to receive power from a power source, a secondary winding arranged to transfer power to a load, and a tapped output arranged to transfer power to a controller circuit, wherein the tapped output is formed from a portio...