ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,019, issued on June 2, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Configurable power module for AC and DC applications" was invented by Mehdi Abolhassani (Houston), Lyle T. Keister (Athens, Ga.) and Josh Keister (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a power module may include: a plurality of first stages, each having an H-bridge to receive an incoming AC voltage at a first frequency and rectify the incoming AC voltage to a DC voltage; a plurality of DC buses, each to receive the DC voltage from one of the plurality of first stages; a plurality of second stages, each coupled to one of the plurality ...