US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Automotive variable voltage converter with multiple sets of power switches" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,146, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automotive variable voltage converter with multiple sets of power switches" was invented by Baoming Ge (Okemos, Mich.), Lihua Chen (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Serdar Hakki Yonak (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable voltage converter includes a pair of series connected switches, a series connected switch and inductor, and a capacitor having a terminal sharing a node with adjacent terminals of the series connected switches and another terminal sharing a node with adjacent terminals of the series connected switch and induct...