US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Sept. 29 for "Trapezoidal current control in electronic transformers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,982, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Trapezoidal current control in electronic transformers" was invented by Yuliang Cao (Blacksburg, Va.) and Dong Dong (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power converters including electronic-embedded transformers for current sharing and load-independent voltage gain are described. An example power converter system includes an input, an output, a power converter between the input and output, and a controller. The converter includes a first bridge, a second bridge, and an electronic-embedded transformer (EET) between the ...