ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,125, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Power converter topology" was invented by Andrew McLean (Halesowen, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter topology, comprising: a cascade connection of a first converter stage and a second converter stage; wherein the first converter stage comprises a current mode controlled pulse width modulation (PWM) converter having one or more pairs of switches forming a first switching bridge and an inductor connected to the output of the first switching bridge, the switching bridge generating a voltage Vlink; and wherein the second con...