ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,844, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Conversion unit including a permission signal" was invented by Marco Schreiter (Dresden, Germany) and Steffen Ritzmann (Reutlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion unit for decreasing an input voltage into an output voltage. The conversion unit includes a step-down converter circuit with at least two voltage inputs for the input voltage, at least two control units, wherein each control unit is assigned to a voltage input, wherein each control unit is configured, upon receipt of a time signal, to output a switch signal to apply the i...