ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,358, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Power converter" was invented by Gael Pillonnet (Grenoble, France), Sami Oukassi (Grenoble, France), Emeric Perez (Grenoble, France) and Yasser Moursy (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a DC-DC converter (100) comprising a first node (N1) and a second node (N2) intended to receive a DC voltage to be converted; a third node (N3) intended to deliver a DC voltage referenced to the second node; at least one first solid electrolyte capacitor (C1); at least one first switching cell ...