US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 7 for "Voltage converter for DC power systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,457, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Voltage converter for DC power systems" was invented by Yaqub Alhussain Mahnashi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage converter system includes a negator coupled to a switched-capacitor converter (SCC). The negator circuit is coupled to an input terminal and generates a negative input voltage signal. The negator circuit includes a flying capacitor, a pair of first switches and a pair of second switches connected in a H-bridge configuration. The SCC is coupled to the input terminal and the negator c...