US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 15 for "Commutation assistance by controlling the shape of the current wave in a bidirectional totem pole converter" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,662, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Commutation assistance by controlling the shape of the current wave in a bidirectional totem pole converter" was invented by Yannick Hague (Mettray, France), Romain Launois (Tours, France) and Guillaume Thiennot (Pernay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional PFC system includes a high-frequency branch with a first transistor connected between an IO node and a high-frequency tap, and a second transistor connected between the high-frequency tap and a reference node, and a low-frequency branch with a first thyristor connected between...