ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,530, issued on March 25, was assigned to REDARC TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD [AU/AU] (Australia).

"Synchronous DC-DC power converter with a single power storage element" was invented by Donald Murray Terrace (Highgate, Australia), Jordan Michael Hao-Jin Kilmartin (Morphett Vale, Australia), Igor Abramov (Woodcroft, Australia) and Luke Woolcock (Morphett Vale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a synchronous DC-DC power converter which may include a conversion cell including a number of switches and a single inductor, and a controller. The controller is configured to control a cycle of conversion of the...