US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on Dec. 30 for "Sequential electrical driving circuits and associated methods" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,767, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Sequential electrical driving circuits and associated methods" was invented by Jason Stauth (Hanover, N.H.) and Yanqiao Li (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sequentially driving an electrical load includes (a) controlling N switching cells, where each of the N switching cells is electrically coupled to a respective one of N energy elements, such that the N energy elements are electrically coupled in a first topology to drive the electrical load with a first voltage, N being an integer greater than one, and (b) controll...