US Patent Issued to Cummins Power Generation on March 17 for "Four quadrant paralleling control for inverters" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,496, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cummins Power Generation Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Four quadrant paralleling control for inverters" was invented by Michael James Scheuerell (Stillwater, Minn.), Oliver Daniel Wilson (Elk River, Minn.), Wangwei Zhou (Shoreview, Minn.), Denise Maria Christine Athaide (Minneapolis), Timothy M. Lewis (Minneapolis) and Aidar Zhetessov (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems, devices, and methods for parallel control. A device may monitor for a transition in a first power signal corresponding to electrical power conveyed between an inverter and an electric bus. The de...