US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on June 23 for "AC switch with supply regulation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,595, issued on June 23, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AC switch with supply regulation" was invented by Antonius Jacobus Johannes Werner (Chesterton, Great Britain) and David Michael Hugh Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ac switch configured to couple and decouple an ac input to a load, the ac switch comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, and a switch controller configured to control the turn ON and turn OFF of the first transistor and the second transistor in response to a request signal. The ac switch comprises an off-state regulator to provide supply regulati...