US Patent Issued to ABB E-MOBILITY on March 17 for "Bi-directional medium voltage to low voltage converter topology" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,490, issued on March 17, was assigned to ABB E-MOBILITY B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Bi-directional medium voltage to low voltage converter topology" was invented by Uwe Drofenik (Zurich, Switzerland), Francisco Canales (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland) and Daniel Rothmund (Mulligen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bi-directional medium voltage converter topology includes an n-pulse line-interphase-transformer, LIT; a plurality of bi-directional medium voltage, MV converters connected to the LIT on an AC side thereof and connected in parallel on a DC side thereof; a bi-directional multi-stage DC/DC converter connected to the ...