US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 12 for "Switched-bus based resonant switched-capacitor converter architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,227, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Switched-bus based resonant switched-capacitor converter architecture" was invented by Ting Ge (Union City, Calif.), Zichao Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yicheng Zhu (Berkeley, Calif.) and Robert C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cascaded converter architecture comprising a pure switched-capacitor (SC) stage and a resonant SC stage. Multiple switching buses are utilized to connect the first-stage SC converter with second-stage multi-phase resonant SC converters. The flying capacitors of both stages ...