ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,256, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power supply system for a data centre" was invented by Andreas Stiedl (Munich) and Roland Huempfner (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system includes one or more solid state transformers (SST), one or more first stage DC-DC converters and one or more second stage DC-DC converters. The one or more solid state transformers (SST) are configured to convert any medium-voltage Alternating Current (MVAC) input or medium-voltage Direct Current (MVDC) input to a first low-voltage Direct-Current (LVDC) output. ...