ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,489, issued on March 17, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"DC/DC converter and control method thereof" was invented by Hao Lu (Shanghai), Yifan Zhang (Shanghai), Yili Cai (Shanghai), Licheng Bao (Shanghai) and Jia Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC/DC converter includes a switching circuit and a capacitor. The switching circuit includes a first bridge arm and a second bridge arm connected in parallel. The first bridge arm includes a first switch and a second switch. The second bridge arm includes a third switch and a fourth switch. The capacitor is electrically connected with a node be...