ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,946, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for operating a converter, control unit for performing the method and converter" was invented by Piniwan Thiwanka Bandara Wijekoon (Nuremberg, Germany) and Anatolii Tcai (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a converter. The converter includes a first and second input terminal for receiving a DC voltage, an output terminal for providing an output voltage variable between a first voltage level and a second voltage level, a first and second series connection of two or m...