US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Jan. 27 for "Multi-level controller with lookup table" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,461, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multi-level controller with lookup table" was invented by Gary Chunshien Wu (San Diego) and Gregory Szczeszynski (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a multi-level power converter that utilizes a look-up-table (LUT) in combination with a fast flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit to implement a complex set of control states for the multi-level power converter. Since the set of control states can be pre-processed, a LUT is very well suited for such selecting such control states. This technique can be fast because t...