ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,967, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power factor correction circuit accounting for zero crossing delay" was invented by Wonmyung Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Duhee Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongil Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides power supply apparatuses and controlling methods thereof. In some embodiments, a power supply apparatus includes a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the PFC ci...