US Patent Issued to pSemi on March 4 for "Switched capacitors for AC-DC applications" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,242, issued on March 4, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Switched capacitors for AC-DC applications" was invented by David M. Giuliano (Brookline, Mass.) and David Kunst (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for conversion between AC and DC voltages includes a rectifier and first and second stages coupled to each other and having a regulator and a switched-capacitor circuit respectively. The first stage receives a first voltage from the rectifier and the second stage provides a second voltage. A controller controls the first and second stages."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2022, under Application...