US Patent Issued to Delta Electronics on Aug. 11 for "Flying-capacitor multi-level bridgeless totem-pole boost PFC converters with reduced zero-crossing distortion of line current" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,529, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Flying-capacitor multi-level bridgeless totem-pole boost PFC converters with reduced zero-crossing distortion of line current" was invented by Laszlo Huber (Durham, N.C.) and Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a multi-level, bridgeless boost power factor correction (PFC) device, comprising: a circuit comprising an inductor, and at least a first pair and a second pair of switches and a capacitor arranged in a flying capacitor, totem-pole configuration; and a control circuit configured to drive the a...