ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,923, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Switched-inductor power converter, communication system, and method coupled with leakage inductor" was invented by Zhengyan He (Nuremberg, Germany), Jiebin Cheng (Dongguan, China) and Chao Wu (Kista, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a switched-inductor power converter, a communication system, and a method. The switched-inductor power converter includes a coupling winding and a unidirectional conduction circuit, and the coupling winding and the unidirectional conduction circuit are connected in series ...