ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,580, issued on April 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion apparatus and power conversion system" was invented by Akinori Hariya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes: a first power terminal; a switching circuit including first switching devices configured to be turned on/off based on a first driving signal; a transformer; a rectifying circuit including second switching devices configured to be turned on/off based on a second driving signal; a smoothing circuit; a second power terminal; and a control circuit. In a first period before electric power is supplied from the first p...