US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 18 for "Cascaded resonant switched-capacitor power converter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,534, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Cascaded resonant switched-capacitor power converter" was invented by Ting Ge (Union City, Calif.), Zichao Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Robert C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascaded power converter architecture is provided which merges a front end stage with subsequent interleaved Switched Capacitor (SC) stages to achieve high conversion ratios. This interleaving control technique addresses practical conversion challenges. Numerous topologies can be created from this approach, a number of ...