ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,724, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd. (Samutprakarn, Thailand).
"Flying-capacitor inverter, multi-level phase-shift converter, and method of controlling the flying- capacitor inverter and the multi-level- phase- shift converter" was invented by Philipp Rehlaender (Paderborn, Germany), Frank Schafmeister (Warburg, Germany) and Joachim Bocker (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure concerns a flying-capacitor inverter, comprising a switch leg with four switches, a flying capacitor connected to the switch leg, an output between pairs of the switches, and a control device conne...