US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Aug. 11 for "Highly efficient isolated bidirectional DC/AC topologies" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,519, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Highly efficient isolated bidirectional DC/AC topologies" was invented by Qin Huang (Austin, Texas) and Qingyun Huang (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus include a first stage converter configured to generate a half sine wave, and a second stage converter in electrical communication with the first stage converter and configured to transform the half sine wave into a power signal. The second stage converter may further supply the power signal to an electrical grid. In one example, the second sta...