US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on July 14 for "Multi-port power converters and associated methods" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,494, issued on July 14, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-port power converters and associated methods" was invented by Ananthakrishnan Viswanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Robert A. McCarthy (Algonquin, Ill.) and Simo Radovic (Rocklin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a multi-port power converter includes (a) controlling flow of electric current through an inductor of the multi-port power converter using a control switching device of the multi-port power converter and (b) causing one of a plurality of load switch assemblies of the multi-port power converter to provide a ...