ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,677, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Parallel module driver" was invented by Ching-Chi Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hsien-Chung Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kai-Ti Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sheng-Chih Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Sen Hung (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel module driver is disclosed and includes a modular backplane structure, a rectifier module and an inverter module. The modular backplane structure includes a plurality of connectors arranged equidistantly in a first direction. The rectifier module includes a rectifier-connection slot connected to one of the...