ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,843, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Switching converter using partial power processing" was invented by Alessandro Pevere (Villach, Austria) and Manuel Escudero Rodriguez (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion circuit is described herein. In accordance with one embodiment, the circuit includes a first converter stage configured to provide a DC bus voltage and a second converter stage configured to receive the DC bus voltage and to generate an output voltage therefrom. The second converter stage includes at least a main branch and a partial power branch, wher...