US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on Aug. 11 for "Single-input, multi-output direct-current-to-direct current converters and associated methods" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,521, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Single-input, multi-output direct-current-to-direct current converters and associated methods" was invented by Elio Consoli (Gravina di Catan, Italy), Marco Masini (Milan), Giuseppe Patti (Catania, Italy) and Manuel Di Cera (Nova Siri, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-input, multiple-output (SIMO) direct-current-to-direct-current (DC-to-DC) converter includes a (i) power conversion stage electrically coupled between an input power node and a switching node and (ii) a plurality of output switching blocks. Each output ...