ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,482, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Power converter with modular stages connected by floating terminals" was invented by David M. Giuliano (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage eleme...