US Patent Issued to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) on May 13 for "Cascade switched capacitor converter to reduce switching loss" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,108, issued on May 13, was assigned to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Cascade switched capacitor converter to reduce switching loss" was invented by Xing Liang (Shanghai) and Wei Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor converter includes an auxiliary circuit, a first branch and a second branch, the auxiliary circuit is connected between the first branch and the second branch, all power transistors of the first branch and the second branch are primary power transistors, and the auxiliary circuit transfers a charge or electric charges on one of the first branch and the sec...