ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,259, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Hybrid switched capacitor power converter with rectification" was invented by Matthias J. Kasper (Villach, Austria), Roberto Rizzolatti (Villach, Austria) and Martin Wattenberg (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes: a first circuit path including a first transformer winding connected in series with a first capacitor between a first node of the first circuit path and a second node of the first circuit path, the second node of the first circuit path is connected to an output node of the power converter; a ...