US Patent Issued to Nanowatt on Oct. 27 for "Balanced multi-level power converter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,697, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nanowatt Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Balanced multi-level power converter" was invented by Owen Jong (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ya Liu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a multi-level power converter circuit includes a flying capacitor, a balancing capacitor to control a voltage across the flying capacitor, a plurality of converter switches, a control switch coupled between the flying capacitor and the balancing capacitor, and control circuitry to open and close the control switch based on states of at least two converter sw...