US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 2 for "Resonant switched capacitor converter control module and method with zero current switching control" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,246, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Resonant switched capacitor converter control module and method with zero current switching control" was invented by Alessandro Nicolosi (Dresano, Italy), Alessandra Farina (Oleggio Castello, Italy) and Edoardo Bonizzoni (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control module, for a resonant switched-capacitor converter with an inductor, includes a controller stage, an input stage generating a control signal indicating a control quantity, a delay stage generating a duration signal indicating a time quantity, and a circuit indicating zero...