ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,261, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FARADAY SEMI INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Power converters with current sensing" was invented by Seungbeom Kevin Kim (Whittier, Calif.), Jack Walter Cornish III (Irvine, Calif.), Saurabh Anil Jayawant (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Parviz Parto (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter can include first, second, third, and fourth power switches, and a driver for operating the drive switches to modify an input voltage. An AC coupling capacitor can be coupled between the first and fourth power switches. Bootstrap capacitors can be used for driving the first and second power ...