ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,111, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).
"Quasi multi-level converter" was invented by Peng Shuai (Shenzhen, China), Chengmin Li (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Drazen Dujic (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a quasi-multi-level power converter and a method of operating the same. The power converter is capable of reconciling scalable operation voltage, multiple output voltage levels, controllable voltage rising or decreasing slew rate, and a balance between the high voltage levels and the volume/weight of passive circuit components."
The...