ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,481, issued on March 17, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Resonant switched capacitor converter" was invented by Fei Ji (Princeton, N.J.) and Shea Lynn Petricek (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC-DC power converter has a ground terminal, an input terminal for receiving an input voltage and an output terminal for providing an output voltage with a target conversion ratio. The power converter includes a coupled inductor having a first winding and a second winding coupled to the output terminal; a first flying capacitor coupled to a first inductor and to the second winding; a second ...