US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Jan. 28 for "Switching bridge for wide gain converter" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,222, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Switching bridge for wide gain converter" was invented by Rodrigo Fernandez-Mattos (Solihull, Great Britain), Andrew Mclean (Halesowen, Great Britain), Jiewen Hu (Blacksburg, Va.), Rolando Burgos (Blacksburg, Va.) and Bo Wen (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching bridge for the DC-DC stage of a power converter, the switching bridge having one or more sets of upper and lower series-connected switches (S1, S2) connected across a DC bus and arranged to be switched to provide an output AC voltage, the switching bridge further compri...