ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,654, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Warwickshire, Great Britain).

"Power supply device and associated variable frequency drive and method" was invented by Henri Baerd (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France), Thufail Elenjickail Abdul Azeez (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France) and Nicolas Gruau (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a power supply device for a variable frequency drive, a drive system and a method for supplying the same, the power supply device includes a switch and an energy storage device having an additional impedance and an energy storage means, a load...