US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Dec. 9 for "Charge pump and buck converter for intermediate bus conversion" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,706, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Charge pump and buck converter for intermediate bus conversion" was invented by David Giuliano (Bedford, N.H.) and Kazunori Tsuda (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include a hybrid power converter including a switched capacitor converter and a buck converter in parallel where the buck converter is operated in an open loop and non-regulated mode; the switched capacitor converter and the buck converter are connected to an input terminal, where the switched capacitor converter operates in an open loop and non-regulat...