US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on July 1 for "Direct-current-to-direct-current converter with transformer thermal management" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,148, issued on July 1, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Direct-current-to-direct-current converter with transformer thermal management" was invented by Yuheng Wu (Fargo, N.D.), Tianjun Fu (West Fargo, N.D.), Long Wu (Fargo, N.D.), Dustin E. Oelmann (Fargo, N.D.) and Richard E. Wainwright (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic controller is configured to adjust the duty cycle, between a respective pairs of semiconductor switches of the primary converter of a direct-current-to-direct-current converter based on reducing or minimizing one or more of the first estimated line-to-line DC offset voltage...