US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 2 for "DC/DC converter with a charge pump sub-circuit for boost or buck mode" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,026, issued on June 2, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"DC/DC converter with a charge pump sub-circuit for boost or buck mode" was invented by Enzo Illiano (Giubiasco, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a DC/DC converter that includes a sub-circuit with an inductance in series with and directly connected to an arrangement of a diode in parallel to a capacitance, the diode blocking during loading the capacitance, the method including loading the capacitance by connecting a first end of the sub-circuit to a plus terminal of a DC voltage source and a second end of the sub-circuit to a m...