ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,225, issued on May 12, was assigned to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Switched capacitor converter" was invented by Xing Liang (Shanghai) and Wei Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor converter includes an auxiliary circuit and two branches, the auxiliary circuit is connected between the two branches, the auxiliary circuit transfers an electric charge or electric charges on one branch to another branch of the two branches during a dead time when all primary power transistors of the two branches are turned off, so as to realize the primary power transistors are turned on...