US Patent Issued to Empower Semiconductor on Feb. 17 for "Power conversion circuit with solid state switches" (California, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,085, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Empower Semiconductor Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Power conversion circuit with solid state switches" was invented by David Lidsky (Oakland, Calif.) and Timothy Alan Phillips (Hope, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched-mode power regulator circuit has four solid-state switches connected in series and a capacitor and an inductor that regulate power delivered to a load. The solid-state switches are operated such that a voltage at the load is regulated by repetitively (1) charging the capacitor causing a current to flow in the inductor and (2) discharging the capacitor causing current to f...