US Patent Issued to Halo Microelectronics International on April 14 for "Switched capacitor converter and control method" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,571, issued on April 14, was assigned to Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, Calif.).

"Switched capacitor converter and control method" was invented by Rui Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Songnan Yang (Frisco, Texas), Shuang Han (Foshan City, China), Rong Shu (Foshan City, China), Wenrui Bai (Foshan City, China) and Qing Cui (Foshan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor converter includes a first energy storage branch, a second energy storage branch, a third energy storage branch comprising a third capacitor, a seventh switch, an eighth switch, a ninth switch and a tenth switch, and a control branch conne...