ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,479, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Startup for non-isolated hybrid sigma converters" was invented by Mario Ursino (Villach, Austria) and Roberto Rizzolatti (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter circuit, including: an unregulated sub-converter; a regulated sub-converter connected to the unregulated sub-converter, wherein the power converter circuit is configured as an input-series-output-parallel (ISOP) non-isolated power converter circuit; and a control circuit operable, during a startup of the power converter circuit, to: control the unregulated su...