US Patent Issued to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) on Jan. 20 for "Method for operating a power converter and power converter" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,489, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Method for operating a power converter and power converter" was invented by Drazen Dujic (Belmont-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jakub Kucka (Ecublens VD, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter. The resonant power converter has a primary stage and a secondary stage, at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter having a pull-up switching device, coupled in parallel with a pull-up antiparallel ...