ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,507, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Method and system for controlling a direct-current-to-direct-current converter with thermal management" was invented by Brij N. Singh (West Fargo, N.D.), Richard E. Wainwright (West Fargo, N.D.) and Yuheng Wu (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, a driver is configured to adjust a phase offset of driver control signals between corresponding switches of the same phase of the primary converter and the secondary converter consistent with the target power transfer and the estimated electromagnetic circuit inductance (e...