ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,326, issued on June 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Power transfer over an isolated capacitive barrier with controlled current" was invented by Ashish Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haoquan Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yogesh Kumar Ramadass (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an apparatus comprises: a primary side bridge coupled between a power input and a first ground terminal, the primary side bridge having first switching terminals coupled to first capacitor terminals; and a secondary side bridge coupled between a power output and a second ground terminal, the secondary side bridge ...