ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,121, issued on May 13, was assigned to TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Tallinn, Estonia).

"System and method for a partial power transfer between two DC sources" was invented by Andrei Blinov (Tallinn, Estonia), Andrii Chub (Tallinn, Estonia), Oleksandr Korkh (Tallinn, Estonia), Dmitri Vinnikov (Tallinn, Estonia), Ilja Galkins (Tallinn, Estonia) and Dimosthenis Peftitsis (Tallinn, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for power transfer between the two DC voltage sources comprises a first and a second DC voltage source and a DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter includes a first bidirectional converter, an isolati...