ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,050, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage converter with reduced inductive energy conversion" was invented by Wen-Tien Tsai (Liuqiu Township, Taiwan), Geng-You Ke (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chao-Wei Wang (Zhudong Township, Taiwan) and Ching-Ran Lee (Jinning Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage converter is connected with a load. The voltage converter includes a power source, a first switching element, a second switching element, an energy storage inductor, an energy storage capacitor and N capacitor modules. The first switching element is connected betwee...