ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,539, issued on March 18, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Three-level rectification DC/DC converter" was invented by Chi Zhang (Apex, N.C.), Minli Jia (Shanghai), Hao Sun (Shanghai), Jinfa Zhang (Shanghai) and Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a three-level rectification DC/DC converter including primary and secondary circuits and a resonant tank circuit. A voltage between two primary terminals is a first voltage. The secondary circuit includes a flying capacitor, a switch bridge arm, and a capacitor bridge arm. The switch bridge ar...