US Patent Issued to Nanjing Silergy Micro Technology on Sept. 1 for "Multi-level converter" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,121, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nanjing Silergy Micro Technology Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Multi-level converter" was invented by Siyuan Chen (Nanjing, China), Sihua Wen (Nanjing, China) and Yu Wu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-level converter can include: a switch capacitor circuit having M flying capacitors and 2*(M+1) transistors, where M is a positive integer; an inductive element; a balance circuit coupled to a common node of the switch capacitor circuit and the inductive element, and including a balance switch and a balance capacitor; and where after a voltage of the balance capacitor is adjust...