US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 15 for "Multi-phase hybrid power converter architecture with large conversion ratios" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,841, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-phase hybrid power converter architecture with large conversion ratios" was invented by Robert Pilawa-Podgurski (Alameda, Calif.) and Zichao Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase hybrid power converter architecture which provides high efficiency, high power density and high conversion ratios for non-isolated DC to DC power conversion. Hybrid converters are described in which a switched-capacitor network is interoperably merged with a switched-inductor network having multiple inductors, resulti...