US Patent Issued to Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International on July 14 for "Zero voltage switching hybrid converter" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,481, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP (Toronto).

"Zero voltage switching hybrid converter" was invented by Cheng-Wei Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-isolated DC-to-DC switching hybrid converter is implemented using a cross-coupled series-capacitor quadruple step-down buck converter topology. In some embodiments, the DC-to-DC switching hybrid converter includes a switched-capacitor converter circuit and incorporates a zero-voltage switching network to implement soft switching and a coupled inductor to realize a fixed step-down ratio. The hybrid converter is ...