US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Sept. 22 for "Methods, systems, and devices for soft switching of power converters" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,450, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Methods, systems, and devices for soft switching of power converters" was invented by Matthias Preindl (New York) and Liwei Zhou (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, and other implementations, including a voltage converter device that includes one or more inductive elements to deliver inductor current to an output section of the voltage converter device, at least one switching device to control current flow at the output section of the voltage converter device, and a controlle...