ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,714, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LOTUS MICROSYSTEMS APS (Hvidovre, Denmark).

"Regulated multi-stage power converter architecture" was invented by Yasser A. A. Nour (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jacob Elias Faester Overgaard (Copenhagen, Denmark), Mohamed Ahmed Refaei Abdelrazik (Cairo) and Hoa Le Thanh (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a power converter comprising a first stage regulated DC-DC converter configured to convert an input DC voltage to an intermediate DC voltage; a second stage open-loop DC-DC converter configured to convert the intermediate DC voltage to an output DC volt...