ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,156, issued on May 12, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Method and controller for controlling a power converter connected to a grid" was invented by Philip Joseph Hart (Niskayana, N.Y.), Hanchao Liu (Niskayana, N.Y.), Atinuke Ademola-Idowu (Niskayana, N.Y.), Matias Uolevi Berg (Pirkanmaa, Finland) and Krishnakumar Raman Vasudevan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a power converter connected to a grid, wherein the power converter is initially controlled in a grid-forming mode to output current at a nominal voltage, based on control data provided by a c...