ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,842, issued on June 17, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage conversion device and voltage conversion method thereof" was invented by Chih-Chung Chiu (Miaoli, Taiwan), Yan-Fu Jhou (Tainan, Taiwan), Chih-Chang Lee (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chih-Cheng Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage conversion device includes a filter circuit, a first inductor, a second inductor a first conversion module, a second conversion module, and a control circuit. The filter circuit is electrically connected to a first AC terminal and a second AC terminal. The first inductor is electrically ...