Patrizio Vinciarelli is

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, president, and

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of Vicor Corporation, which he founded in 1981 and has led since its inception. Prior to founding Vicor, Vinciarelli was a fellow from 1977 to 1980 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey and an instructor at

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. From 1973 to 1976, he was a fellow at

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, the Center for Nuclear Research in

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, Switzerland. Vinciarelli received his

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from the University of Rome, Italy. Vinciarelli is published in over 40

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s, and holds more than 100

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s for

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/conversion technology.

Patents

Patents include: *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Double-clamped ZVS buck-boost power converter,” U.S. Patent 7,561,446, issued on July 14, 2009 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Universal

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,” U.S. Patent 7,548,441, issued on June 16, 2009 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “ Power converter package and thermal management,” U.S. Patent 7,361,844, issued on April 22, 2008 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Printed circuit transformer,” U.S. Patent 7,187,263, issued on March 6, 2007 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Buck-boost DC-DC switching power conversion, U.S. Patent 7,154,250, issued on December 26, 2006 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Factorized power architecture with point of load sine amplitude converters,” U.S. Patent 6,984,965, issued on January 10, 2006 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, Fred M. Finnemore, Michael B. LaFleur, and Charles I. McCauley, “Power converter packaging,” U.S. Patent 6,434,005, issued on August 13, 2002 *Patrizio Vinciarelli and Jay Prager, “Control of stored

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in power converter

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s,” U.S. Patent 5,805,434, issued on September 8, 1998 *Patrizio Vinciarelli and Richard E. Beede, “Efficient power conversion,” U.S. Patent 5,786,992, issued on July 28, 1998 *Patrizio Vinciarelli and Jay Prager, “Reverse energy transfer in zero-current switching power conversion,” U.S. Patent 5,668,466, issued on September 16, 1997 *Patrizio Vinciarelli, “Zero-current switching forward power converter operating in damped reverse boost mode,” U.S. Patent 5,291,385, issued on March 1, 1994 *Patrizio Vinciarelli and Jay M. Prager, “Zero-current switching forward power conversion apparatus and method with controllable energy transfer,” U.S. Patent 5,235,502, issued on August 10, 1993 *Patrizio Vinciarelli and Theodore R. Harpley, "DC to DC power converter", U.S. Design Patent 297,928, issued on October 4, 1988

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