US Patent Issued to Halo Microelectronics International on June 17 for "Hybrid power conversion system and control method" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,806, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, Calif.).

"Hybrid power conversion system and control method" was invented by Rui Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Thomas Liu (Freemont, Calif.) and Songnan Yang (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter includes L phase legs, each phase leg of the L phase legs comprising a plurality of switches connected in series between an input power source and ground, wherein a first flying capacitor of an Mth phase is cross-coupled between an Mth phase leg and an (M+1)th phase leg, and a first flying capacitor of an Lth phase is cross-coupled between an ...