ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,264, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Resonant flyback power converter and switching control circuit and method thereof" was invented by Kun-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsin-Yi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Fu-Ciao Syu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Hsien Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant flyback power converter includes: a first and a second transistors which form a half-bridge circuit for switching a transformer and a resonant capacitor to generate an output voltage; a current-sense device for sensing a sw...