US Patent Issued to B&R Industrial Automation on April 21 for "Multi-level power converter with improved clamping functionality" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,633, issued on April 21, was assigned to B&R Industrial Automation GmbH (Eggelsberg, Austria).

"Multi-level power converter with improved clamping functionality" was invented by Jonas Wyss (Zurich), Florian Holler (Obertrum am See, Austria) and Franz Maislinger (Mattighofen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide an improved method for operating a multi-level power converter, a lower threshold value, an upper threshold value above the lower threshold value, and an inflection value between the lower threshold value and the upper threshold value are determined, and in the event that a predefined time signal of a ta...