US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Oct. 27 for "Resonant converter with wide input and output voltage range" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,717, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Resonant converter with wide input and output voltage range" was invented by Juan A. Aqui Tapia (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) and Richard E. Wainwright (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional DC-DC converter having at least two secondary inductors on a secondary side of a transformer. The converter includes at least two switches respectively coupled to the at least two secondary inductors. Through selective operation of the switches, a gain of the converter can be changed by selectively coupling one secondary inductor to a primary inductor in accorda...