US Patent Issued to McMaster University on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for wide voltage DC-DC power conversion" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,493, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada).

"Systems and methods for wide voltage DC-DC power conversion" was invented by Rachit Pradhan (Hamilton, Canada), Shreyas B Shah (Hamilton, Canada), Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan (Hamilton, Canada) and Ali Emadi (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a DC-DC power converter comprises a primary circuit coupled to a DC input voltage, a secondary circuit coupled to a DC output voltage, and a transformer isolating the primary from the secondary circuit. The primary circuit comprises a first and second circuit branch. The first ci...