ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,028, issued on May 19, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Power conversion device" was invented by Keiya Tani (Kariya-city, Japan) and Shunichi Kubo (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device is applicable to three or more charge storage units connected in series. The power conversion device includes: a rotating electric machine including a stator winding; an inverter including upper and lower arm switches and connecting the stator winding and the charge storage units; a high potential path connected to a high potential terminal of the upper arm switch; a low potential path connected to a l...