ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,096, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Converter system" was invented by Chi Zhang (Durham, N.C.), Zhiyu Shen (Durham, N.C.) and Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a converter system including a branch circuit and a controller. The branch circuit includes a top arm and a bottom arm electrically connected to each other. The top arm includes N cells and a top arm inductor. The bottom arm includes N' cells and a bottom arm inductor. The controller controls the converter system to operate in first, second and third modes throug...