US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 12 for "DC-DC converter based on piezoelectric resonator" (Tennessee, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,364, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"DC-DC converter based on piezoelectric resonator" was invented by David J. Perreault (Cambridge, Mass.), Jessica Boles (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Joshua Piel (Fairfax Station, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dc-dc converter can include a plurality of switches, a piezoelectric resonator (PR) for power stage energy storage, and a means for controlling one or more switching sequences. The switches operate in accordance with the switching sequences to transfer energy from the input to the output via the PR while providing low-loss reson...