ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,886, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Converter circuit" was invented by Peter Theodorus Johannes Degen (Arnhem, Netherlands), Kimmo Petteri Salo (Elst, Netherlands) and Frank van Rens (Horst, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a converter circuit, including: an input configured to receive either a voltage or a current; an output configured to transmit either a voltage or a current; a voltage reference; a half-bridge (HB) node; a high-side (HS) switch coupled between the input and the HB node; a low-side (LS) switch coupled between the voltage reference and the HB node; a...