ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,835, issued on May 19, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power converter" was invented by Takanori Ishii (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a step-up operation is performed, a control device of a power converter outputs a first reference control signal for turning ON/OFF a first switching element to the first switching element and a third switching element of a first full bridge circuit, outputs a first reference inverted signal with an inverted phase with respect to the first reference control signal to a second switching element and a fourth switching element, extends a period in which at least the second s...