H02M 1/0045
Converters combining the concepts of switch-mode regulation and linear regulation
Official title: {Converters combining the concepts of switch-mode regulation and linear regulation, e.g. linear pre-regulator to switching converter, linear and switching converter in parallel, same converter or same transistor operating either in linear or switching mode}
H02M1/0045 (Converters combining the concepts of switch-mode regulation and linear regulation) appears on 1,004 US grants and 1,113 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02M- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,113
- Assignees
- 483
- Inventors
- 2,255
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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