ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,864, issued on April 7, was assigned to SHANGHAI BRIGHT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Controller and isolated power converter" was invented by Yanmei Guo (Shanghai), Yihui Chen (Shanghai) and Xiaoru Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller and an isolated power converter are disclosed. The controller includes: a bypass terminal coupled to a bypass capacitor; a first power circuit coupled to the bypass terminal and a first terminal, the first terminal configured to transfer electric charge from the first terminal to the bypass terminal; a second power circuit coupled to the first terminal, a second termina...