US Patent Issued to Fronius International on March 3 for "DC-to-DC converter for a welding device and method for operating a DC-to-DC converter of a welding device" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,809, issued on March 3, was assigned to Fronius International GmbH (Pettenbach, Austria).

"DC-to-DC converter for a welding device and method for operating a DC-to-DC converter of a welding device" was invented by Thomas Knoll (Wels-Thalheim, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce energy losses for a welding device when on stand-by and to enable a clean and controlled start of the welding phase, a DC-to-DC converter of the welding device converts an input DC voltage present at an input connection to an output DC voltage present at an output connection. At least one switch element of a branch of the DC-to-DC converter is swi...