ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,806, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Balanced boost DC/DC converter" was invented by Manuel Raimann (Salem, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A symmetrical DC-to-DC boost converter includes a DC input voltage source with a negative DC voltage input and a positive DC voltage input, a negative DC and positive DC voltage output, at least four switches, and two chokes, one of which is connected to the negative DC voltage input and two adjacent switches, and the other of which is connected to the positive DC voltage input and two other adjacent switches, such that a symmetrical to...