ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,641, issued on March 31, was assigned to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Bidirectional high voltage gain DC-DC power converter with automatic current sharing function" was invented by Huang-Jen Chiu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Nhat Truong Phan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Liu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Anh Dung Nguyen (Hayward, Calif.), Tan Tung Nguyen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Van Quy Le (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-voltage gain DC-DC bidirectional power converter with automatic current sharing function includes first, second, and third switching circuits and a...