US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on July 7 for "Power electronic building block for modular multilevel converters" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,559, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Power electronic building block for modular multilevel converters" was invented by Georgios Stamatiou (Vasteras, Sweden) and Aravind Mohanaveeramani (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronic building block is provided, including capacitors, switch modules, a busbar arrangement, and at least one AC busbar. Connection points of the at least one AC busbar are arranged symmetrically along a first direction with respect to a plane perpendicularly intersecting the first direction, and the at least one AC busbar includes a hole elongat...