ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,531, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Buck-boost converter for contactor drive" was invented by Brennan Fox (Machesney Park, Ill.), Ronald J. Gadow (Stillman Valley, Ill.) and Christopher D. Thornton (St. Charles, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage driver includes a voltage input. A voltage regulation controller is operatively connected to receive input voltage from the voltage input and includes an on/off input. The voltage regulation controller is configured to control a switching converter in a first mode, a second mode, at least one buck mode, and at least one boost mod...