US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Oct. 28 for "DC-DC converter with parallel and series capacitor configurations" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,921, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"DC-DC converter with parallel and series capacitor configurations" was invented by John P. Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC converter for converting an input voltage at an input node, the converter comprising: first and second inductor nodes for connection of an inductor therebetween; first and second flying capacitor nodes for connection of a flying capacitor therebetween; a first switching network for selectively connecting the first flying capacitor node to each of the input node and the first inductor node; a second s...