US Patent Issued to SILICON MITUS on Feb. 25 for "3-level buck-boost converter with flying capacitor voltage balancing circuit" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,770, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SILICON MITUS INC. (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

"3-level buck-boost converter with flying capacitor voltage balancing circuit" was invented by Jae Soon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hak Hee Lee (Yongin-Si, South Korea) and Seok Mun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3-level buck-boost converter includes: an inductor connected in series between a switching node and a ground terminal; an output capacitor connected between an output terminal from which an output voltage is output and a ground terminal; a first switch connected between an input terminal to which an input voltage ...