ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,470, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Peak efficiency tracking in an LLC converter of a multi-stage power conversion system" was invented by Ranajay Mallik (Ghaziabad, India) and Akshat Jain (Nahan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an LLC resonant converter includes a switching bridge having a plurality of power switches. The switching bridge is configured to receive a DC voltage input and generate a square waveform based on a pulse-modulated frequency (PFM) signal at the switching bridge. The LLC resonant converter further includes a resonant tank circu...