ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,379, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to REINHAUSEN GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Converter and method for bringing an actual transformation ratio into line with a target transformation ratio" was invented by Holger Kretzschmar (Berlin), Stephan Rupp (Besigheim, Germany) and Axel Brandt (Hennigsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter converts a DC input voltage into a DC output voltage. The converter includes: a regulator unit coupled to a power unit. The power unit has: a first converter stage, with two input connections; a second converter stage, which is connected to the first converter stage; and a third converter ...