ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,434, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY (Beer Sheva, Israel).

"Digital zero-current switching lock-in controller IC for optimized operation of resonant switched-capacitor converters (SCCs)" was invented by Mor Mordechai Peretz (Lehavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital lock-in controller for Resonant-type converters with one or more sub-circuits having resonant tanks and one or more flying capacitors connected across the resonant tanks, which comprises an auto-tuner that receives as input Zero-Current Detect (ZCD) signals and implements a tuning al...