ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,041, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for modular high voltage conversion ratio power converter" was invented by Minjie Chen (Princeton, N.J.) and Shuai Jiang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a power converter circuit is disclosed. The power converter circuit includes a plurality of voltage splitting units (VSUs) coupled to a plurality of current splitting units (CSUs). The VSUs are connected to each other in series and the CSUs are connected to each other in parallel. The VSUs each have a fixed voltage ...