ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,058, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"DC/DC converter and a method for operating a DC/DC converter" was invented by Jakub Kucka (Ecublens VD, Switzerland) and Drazen Dujic (Paudex, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a DC/DC converter (1) for transferring an active power between two DC subsystems (5, 6) comprising: -a first converter stage (3) and a second converter stage (4) both configured to be selectively operated as an active inverter or as a passive rectifier; -an AC coupling circuit (2) for coupling the first and...