ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,851, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"High frequency integrated planar magnetics for a bidirectional AC to DC CLLC resonant converter" was invented by Sunil Dube (Vestal, N.Y.), Kalyan Yenduri (Vestal, N.Y.) and Pritam Das (Vestal, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer for a power converter, comprising: a first auxiliary subcore, a central subcore, and a second auxiliary subcore, each respective subcore comprising a lower plate, at least one pair of central spacers, and an upper plate, the lower plate, at least one pair of central spacers, a...