US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON I, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON on Dec. 23 for "Converting an input DC voltage into an output dc voltage having a predetermined value using batteries" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,408, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON (Villeurbanne, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON I (Villeurbanne, France) and ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON (Ecully, France).

"Converting an input DC voltage into an output dc voltage having a predetermined value using batteries" was invented by Gael Pillonnet (Grenoble, France), Bruno Allard (Villeurbanne, France), Carlos-Augusto Berlitz (Grenoble, France) and Sami Oukassi (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...