ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,071, issued on June 10, was assigned to HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bidirectional direct current converter and control method thereof" was invented by Jun Wang (Shanghai), Lei Shi (Shanghai), Yunfeng Liu (Shanghai) and Zhaohui Wang (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional direct current converter includes a controller that controls a switching transistor in the bidirectional direct current converter to reduce an inductance of an inductor, thereby reducing a size and costs of the inductor, and further reducing a size and costs of the entire bidirectional direct current conve...