US Patent Issued to Wolfspeed on April 29 for "Circuits and methods for controlling bidirectional CLLC converters" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,057, issued on April 29, was assigned to Wolfspeed Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Circuits and methods for controlling bidirectional CLLC converters" was invented by Chen Wei (Shenzhen, China), Dongfeng Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Xie (Shenzhen, China), Ying Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Jianwen Shao (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional power converter includes a first switch circuit coupled to a second switch circuit via a transformer, wherein the first switch circuit is configured to transfer power to the second switch circuit during a charging mode, the second switch circuit is configured to transfer power to the first s...