ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,445, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Hybrid optimized control for dc-dc converter" was invented by Shenli Zou (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Maziar Mobarrez (Irvine, Calif.), Steven Schulz (Torrance, Calif.) and Zahra Mohajerani (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling a dual active bridge converter or other type of DC-DC converter are disclosed herein. An output voltage of the dual active bridge converter is detected. Based at least in part on the output voltage, a first target duty ratio of a primary bridge of the dual active bridge converter and a second t...