US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies USA on Aug. 4 for "Resonant converter having variable frequency control and valley skipping time-shift for efficient soft switching operation" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,798, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Resonant converter having variable frequency control and valley skipping time-shift for efficient soft switching operation" was invented by Daniel William Shafer (Mussey Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a DC-DC converter circuit to maintain an output current to charge a battery is disclosed. The method includes receiving an output voltage of the DC-DC converter circuit and receiving a desired charging current to charge a battery. When the output voltage is greater or equal to the predefined output voltage, th...