ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,589, issued on April 14, was assigned to CRRC ZHUZHOU INSTITUTE Co. LTD (Zhuzhou, China) and ZHUZHOU CRRC TIMES ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Zhuzhou, China).

"Electric traction system" was invented by Yu Qi (Zhuzhou, China), Wenqing Mei (Zhuzhou, China), Liangjie Liu (Zhuzhou, China), Zechun Dou (Zhuzhou, China), Xiong Liu (Zhuzhou, China), Yuecheng Xie (Zhuzhou, China) and Bin Liu (Zhuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electric traction system 1, comprising: a traction converter module 2 comprising: a positive input terminal 4 and a negative input terminal 6 for operatively coupling to a DC power supply, and a pl...