US Patent Issued to Power Integrations on July 28 for "Paralleling power switches" (Swiss, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,450, issued on July 28, was assigned to Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Paralleling power switches" was invented by Vikram Balakrishnan (San Francisco), Michael Anton Brumann (Biel, Switzerland), Matthias Peter (Bern, Switzerland) and Andreas Volke (Soest, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power switching system includes a plurality of power switching units each including a respective power switch, a communication system configured to convey a system-wide switching command to the power switching units along a communication channel, and circuitry, included in each of the power switching units, that is configured to...