ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,648, issued on July 15, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).
"Power conversion phases and coupling inductance" was invented by Roberto Rizzolatti (Villach, Austria), Cheng-Wei Chen (Torrance, Calif.), Christian Rainer (Magdalensberg, Austria) and Mario Ursino (Villach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus such as a power converter includes a first flying capacitor operative to store a first flying capacitor voltage; a second flying capacitor operative to store a second flying capacitor voltage; an inductor providing coupling between the first flying capacitor and the second flying capaci...