US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 30 for "Power converter with capacitive energy transfer and fast dynamic response" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,801, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Power converter with capacitive energy transfer and fast dynamic response" was invented by David M. Giuliano (Burlington, Mass.), David J. Perreault (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robert C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter circuit and related technique for providing high power density power conversion includes a reconfigurable switched capacitor transformation stage coupled to a magnetic converter (or regulation) stage. The circuits and techniques achieve high performance over a wide input voltag...