ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,522, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Flying capacitor primary side circuit for isolated DC/DC converter" was invented by Mahdi Jedari Zare Zadeh (Ottawa) and Juncheng Lu (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage converter circuit including a primary side circuit including four transistors connected in series between two voltage application nodes, and two capacitors coupled in series between the two voltage application nodes. A flying capacitor is connected between first circuit node and a second circuit node, where the first circuit node is between the first and second tr...