ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,999, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Microgrid system, power converter, and control method for power converter" was invented by Meiqing Zhang (Shanghai), Shuo Wang (Shanghai), Mingxuan Dong (Shanghai) and Kai Xin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output end of a power converter is connected to a microgrid bus, and the microgrid bus is connected to an external power grid through a grid-tied switch. When detecting that a power grid fails, the power converter is in a first current source control mode. After a duration of the power grid failure reaches a first du...