ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,123, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"DC-DC converter circuit" was invented by Pavel Studnicka (Brno, Czech Republic), Petr Spanel (Brno, Czech Republic), Ondrej Kotaba (Brno, Czech Republic) and Jiri Holy (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC converter circuit includes a high-side transistor, a low side transistor, a gate driver power supply, a converter control, and a capacitance divider network. The high-side transistor includes a high-side drain terminal, a high-side source terminal, and a high-side gate terminal. The high-side drain terminal is coupled to a ...