US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on April 14 for "Switch bootstrapping for multi-level inductive power converter" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,573, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Switch bootstrapping for multi-level inductive power converter" was invented by Graeme G. Mackay (Austin, Texas), Jin-Jyh Su (Austin, Texas), Hasnain Akram (Austin, Texas), Changjong Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dave Marshnil (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-level power converter configured to receive a power supply and generate an inductor current may include a first switch coupled to a first capacitor, a second switch coupled to a second capacitor, a third switch coupled to a third capacitor, a fourth switch, an inductor cou...