ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,532, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Resonant DC converter and method for operating a resonant DC converter" was invented by Ashot Melkonyan (Munich), Hans-Christian Doht (Erlangen, Germany), Jorg Leonhardt (Bruchsal, Germany) and Sebastian Nielebock (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant DC converter is equipped with a supply input for a supply voltage, a DC voltage output for providing a DC voltage, a pulse generator connected to the supply input, a resonant converter connected to outputs of the pulse generator and on the output side to the DC voltage output, a capacitor connected bet...