ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,180, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT Corp. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Coupled-inductor-based power-device circuit topology" was invented by Pradeep Tolakanahalli Nagabhushanrao (Bangalore, India) and Chandrasekaran Jayaraman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system is provided. The UPS system includes a first input configured to be coupled to an input power source, a second input configured to be coupled to an energy storage device, an output configured to provide output power, a power conversion circuit (PCC) confi...