ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,042, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Isolation connections for high-voltage power stage" was invented by John Pigott (Phoenix) and Trevor Mark Newlin (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a power stage for a direct current (DC)-DC converter and a DC-DC converter are disclosed. In an embodiment, a power stage for a DC-DC converter includes an input terminal from which input power of the DC-DC converter with an input DC voltage is received, a high-side segment connected between the input DC voltage and an output signal of the power stage, and a low-side segment connected between th...