ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,230, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), LITE-ON SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore) and LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Trapezoidal current mode for multilevel DC-DC converter" was invented by Zhi-Gang Yao (Singapore), Yi Tang (Singapore), Jing Yang (Singapore), Shih-Ming Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jung-Chih Wei (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a pulse generator for applying to a multilevel DC-DC converter including a filter is provided. The pulse generator includes a controller and multiple capacitor-switch modules coupled to the contr...