US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on May 27 for "Modulation to extend zero-voltage switching margin for dual-active bridge converter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,233, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Modulation to extend zero-voltage switching margin for dual-active bridge converter" was invented by Yanjun Shi (Torrance, Calif.), Zahra Mohajerani (Los Angeles), Lixiang Wei (Irvine, Calif.) and Mohammad Nanda R. Marwali (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling a dual active bridge converter are disclosed herein. A bus voltage of a dual active bridge (DAB) converter is detected and a first duty ratio of a primary bridge and a second duty ratio of a secondary bridge are determined, at least one of the first dut...