US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 25 for "Low forward voltage drop passive full-bridge rectifier architectures" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,376, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low forward voltage drop passive full-bridge rectifier architectures" was invented by Giacomo Calabrese (Freising, Germany), Nicola Bertoni (Freising, Germany), Sooping Saw (McKinney, Texas) and Taisuke Kazama (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rectifier circuit includes a first diode-connected transistor coupled to a first voltage terminal and a second diode-connected transistor coupled to a second voltage terminal. A switch network is coupled between the first diode-connected transistor and the second diode-connected transistor. The switch network...