ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,372, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Combined Energies LLC (Latham, N.Y.).
"Hybrid, high-power, bidirectional DC-DC converter" was invented by John Anthony Vogel (Latham, N.Y.) and Mark Robert Wyman (East Bloomfield, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid, high-power, bidirectional DC to DC converter includes switches between a delta-wye configuration and a straight interleaved configuration. In this way, the converter can operate in a delta-wye configuration for low to mid-current input applications and in a straight interleaved configuration for high-current applications. This allows the converter to have high efficiency w...