US Patent Issued to Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) on Sept. 9 for "Control circuit and control method for three-level DC-DC converter" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,139, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD (Hangzhou, China).

"Control circuit and control method for three-level DC-DC converter" was invented by Shuai Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhen Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Wang Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a three-level DC-DC converter having first, second, third, and fourth power switches coupled in series between an input voltage and a reference ground, and a flying capacitor coupled between a common node of the first and second power switches and a common node of the third and fourth power switches,...