US Patent Issued to Power Switching on April 7 for "Isolated buck-boost topologies and control thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,863, issued on April 7, was assigned to Power Switching LLC (Torrance, Calif.).

"Isolated buck-boost topologies and control thereof" was invented by Alen Dahaki (Gardena, Calif.), Farzad Ahmadkhanlou (Torrance, Calif.) and Reza Sarhadi Nia (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first stage that operates in a buck, boost, or combination of buck and boost topology. The first stage includes an input side that receives an input signal and has a plurality of switches, and an output side that applies an output signal. The first stage includes a voltage transformer having a first winding coupled to the input s...