US Patent Issued to Lightyear IPCo on Nov. 25 for "Scalable multi-port converter for solar electric vehicles" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,316, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lightyear IPCo B.V. (Helmond, Netherlands).

"Scalable multi-port converter for solar electric vehicles" was invented by Marald Otten (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bastiaan Joannes Daniel Vermulst (Lieshout, Netherlands) and Bart Franciscus Joseph Bokmans (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention pertains to a three-port isolated active bridge DC-DC power converter comprising a control unit, a first primary-side port, a second primary-side port, two primary-side switching elements, a blocking switch, a secondary-side port and two secondary-side switching elements. The con...