US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on Jan. 20 for "Multiple winding integrated transformers" (Virginia, California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,178, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Multiple winding integrated transformers" was invented by Alireza Khaligh (Arlington, Va.), Shenli Zou (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Akshay Singh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Chanaka Singhabahu (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of multi-winding transformer designs that achieve leakage integration in multi-port power electronics systems is presented. The magnetic design structures are extendable to realize an N-port multi-winding transformer with or without leakage inductance integration, that interfaces different voltage...