US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on March 24 for "Power supply including a reconfigurable active front end converter" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,109, issued on March 24, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Power supply including a reconfigurable active front end converter" was invented by Mahesh M. Swamy (Gurnee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable power supply may include an internal power source and a active front-end converter connected to the internal power source. The active front-end converter includes a positive DC connector lead, a negative DC connector lead, a positive source side lead, a negative source side lead, and a plurality of switches. The active front-end converter is configured to operate as a DC-DC converter for D...