ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,474, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S. (Ankara, Turkey).

"Single-phase, three-level, buck-boost inverter" was invented by Eyyup Demirkutlu (Ankara, Turkey) and Ires Iskender (Ankara, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformerless, high efficiency, three-level, high power density, wide input voltage range, single-phase DC/AC inverter is provided. The inverter includes a single DC input power supply, a first semiconductor switch, a second semiconductor switch, a third semiconductor switch, a fourth semiconductor switch, a fifth semiconductor switch, a sixth semiconductor switch, a s...