ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,672, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Direct-current-to-direct-current converter with compensation for potential transformer saturation" was invented by Dustin E. Oelmann (Fargo, N.D.), Yuheng Wu (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, the second estimated line-to-line D...