US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 21 for "Voltage controller having phase-compensated harmonic regulator" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,215, issued on July 21, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Voltage controller having phase-compensated harmonic regulator" was invented by Vlatko Miskovic (Loves Park, Ill.), Seok-hee Han (Dunlap, Ill.), James Thorne (Dunlap, Ill.) and Rishi Kant Sharma (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage controller detects a voltage spike in an electrical signal received from an electrical power source. The voltage controller is implemented using a single-loop control system in a stationary reference frame. The electrical signal includes voltage harmonics caused by a non-linear or unbalanced load. The voltage co...