US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on July 15 for "Multiple port DC-DC converter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,570, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Multiple port DC-DC converter" was invented by Al-Thaddeus Avestruz (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Alireza Ramyar (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for DC-DC conversion includes a plurality of input ports to receive a set of DC voltage inputs, at least one DC voltage input being configured as a differential input, a plurality of input semiconductor switches, each input semiconductor switch being coupled to a respective input port of the plurality of input ports, an inductor coupled to each input semiconductor switch,...