ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,799, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Reference sine generator for PFC controller" was invented by Roman Stuler (Karolinka, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power factor correction (PFC) controller for a PFC switching power supply is disclosed. The PFC controller includes an AC sense terminal, a DC sense terminal, and a reference signal generator coupled to the AC sense terminal. The reference signal generator is configured to receive a divided reference signal generated based on a modified version of an AC input signal and generate a synthesized reference...