US Patent Issued to AVL List on Dec. 30 for "DC-to-DC converter comprising a current sensor arrangement" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,761, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria).

"DC-to-DC converter comprising a current sensor arrangement" was invented by Martin Schmidt (Langen, Germany) and Erwin Reisinger (Feldkirchen bei Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "DC-to-DC converter for converting an input direct voltage V1 into at least one variable output direct voltage Vout, comprising at least two switched converter units (2, 2') each having at least one electronically controllable half bridge (3, 3'), and a control unit (4) which is designed to control the half bridges (3, 3') in a modulation method with a variable period duration...