ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,807, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Bitrode Corp. (St. Louis).

"System and method for a bi-directional DC/DC converter" was invented by Andy Lozowski (Edwardsville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for a bi-directional DC/DC converter. More specifically, provided is a bi-directional DC/DC converter, having a balancing effect of two bi-directional input points and two bi-directional output points to three distinct pairs of MOSFET circuits disposed between the input points and the output points. The balancing effect is provided by a copper backplane having a first side and a second side, the first s...