ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,457, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Hybrid DC chained energy storage converter and control method thereof" was invented by Guangcheng Hu (Shanghai), Yuncheng Wang (Shanghai), Teng Liu (Shanghai) and Peng Xiao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hybrid DC chained energy storage converter, including: a positive DC bus; a negative DC bus; a main circuit inductor; at least one high frequency sub module, including a first switch circuit and a first capacitor connected in parallel; a plurality of low frequency sub modules each including a second switch circuit and an ...