ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,496, issued on June 23, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for preventing saturation of a transformer during fast voltage changes and a control system thereof" was invented by Glib Chekavskyy (Cracow, Poland), Piotr Sobanski (Cracow, Poland), Milosz Miskiewicz (Cracow, Poland) and Grzegorz Bujak (Wieliczka, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for preventing saturation of a transformer during fast voltage changes by correction of magnetic flux of the transformer, the transformer having a primary winding with a power electronic converter and a secondary winding, the control method including ...