ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,748, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power converter and protection method for short circuit to ground on direct current side thereof" was invented by Kai Guo (Shanghai), Houjian Xu (Shanghai) and Xiaoxiang Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a power conversion circuit, a relay, and a controller. The power conversion circuit can be configured to implement conversion from a direct current to an alternating current. The relay can be configured to implement on-grid and off-grid switching. The controller can be configured to control swi...