US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Sept. 1 for "Multi-level power converter with flyback capacitor pre-charge" (Austrian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,135, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Multi-level power converter with flyback capacitor pre-charge" was invented by Alex Rossi (Villach, Austria), Matteo-Alessandro Kutschak (Ludmannsdorf, Austria) and David Meneses Herrera (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a multi-level power converter, includes an output terminal, a reference terminal, an inductor, a flying capacitor, a first switching stage including a first switch connected to the output terminal and connected to the flying capacitor at a first node, and a second switch connected to the...