ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,966, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Power Switching LLC (Torrance, Calif.).
"Non-isolated zero current and voltage transition technique (ZCVTT)" was invented by Alen Dahaki (Torrance, Calif.), Farzad Ahmadkhanlou (Torrance, Calif.) and Reza Sarhadi Nia (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero current and voltage transition technique (ZCVTT) switching circuit includes a switch, and a passive block coupled to the switch and configured to damp an input signal from the switch. The switching circuit further includes a recycle positive energy (RPE) block coupled to the passive block and configured to recycle positive e...