ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,668, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Boost converter and method of controlling a boost converter" was invented by Yu Wang (Shanghai), Zhiquan Chen (Shanghai), Jie Fu (Shanghai), Shan Wang (Shanghai) and Gang Wang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boost converter has a main energy storage inductor and a main GaN boost switch with a node between them. A pre-charging switch is connected at the output side of the main boost switch and the inductor, between the node and an output capacitor. The pre-charging switch comprises a body diode in the forward direction from the output ca...