US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Oct. 14 for "Power converter comprising at least two switches and a module for supplying control signals thereto" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,064, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (France).

"Power converter comprising at least two switches and a module for supplying control signals thereto" was invented by Alain Bailly (Rousset, France) and Dominique Bergogne (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns an electronic device comprising: a first switch (T1) having a single voltage blocking direction; a second switch (T2) electrically in series with the first switch between two nodes (15, 17) of application of a DC voltage; and a module configured to supply the second switch wi...