ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,539, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Control of auxiliary-assisted DC-DC converter" was invented by Nameer Ahmed Khan (Toronto), Olivier Trescases (Toronto), John Pigott (Phoenix), Hendrik Johannes Bergveld (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Gerard Villar Pique (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Alaa Eldin Y El Sherif (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a controller and power converter having a main buck converter connected between a first input voltage and ground and having a main output, a bidirectional auxiliary converter connected between a second terminal and ground and having an auxilia...