US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Feb. 17 for "Direct-current-to-direct-current converter for parallel operation" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,104, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Direct-current-to-direct-current converter for parallel operation" was invented by Yuheng Wu (Fargo, N.D.), Tianjun Fu (West Fargo, N.D.), Long Wu (Fargo, N.D.), Dustin E. Oelmann (Fargo, N.D.) and Richard E. Wainwright (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic controller is configured to provide control signals to the control terminals of the semiconductor switches of the first primary converter and the first secondary converter based on a commanded current or target output current (e.g., pursuant to a voltage control mode); the first ...