US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on June 24 for "Power converters with wide bandgap semiconductors" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,373, issued on June 24, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Power converters with wide bandgap semiconductors" was invented by Omid H. Shirazi (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power converting devices (100) for power tools. One embodiment provides a power converter device (100) including a power source (200), a power converter (210) coupled to the power source (200), and an electronic processor (220) coupled to the power converter (210) to control the operation of the power converter (210). The power converter (210) is configured to receive an input power in one form or at a first voltage...