ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,364, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control device of power factor correction circuit, power factor correction circuit and power supply device" was invented by Yoshinori Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a control device for a power factor correction circuit. The power factor correction circuit is disposed in a power supply device configured to generate a direct current output voltage from an alternating current voltage applied to a pair of power supply terminals. The power factor correction circuit is disposed between a full-wave rectifier circuit confi...