ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,966, issued on June 9, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Boost circuitry and boost system" was invented by Hideki Uchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Boost circuitry 20 including: an input 48 configured to input an electrical signal; capacitors 43, 45 connected in parallel configured to store charge pertaining to the electrical signal input; at least one of a switch 44 capable of switching a connection state of the capacitors 43, 45; and a controller 47 configured to control the at least one of the switch 44 to switch the connection state of the capacitors 43, 45 from parallel to series based on an amount of charge of any ...