US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on March 25 for "Method of operating a power converter, control circuit, and power converter with switch input circuit" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,547, issued on March 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Method of operating a power converter, control circuit, and power converter with switch input circuit" was invented by Gerald Deboy (Klagenfurt, Austria) and Matthias J. Kasper (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a power converter and a control circuit are disclosed. The method includes, in a power converter including an input, a converter stage, a first switch connected between the input and the converter stage, a second switch connected between input nodes of the converter stage, and an output capacito...