US Patent Issued to Innomotics on July 14 for "Cell based multilevel converter with multiple operating modes and associated control method" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,517, issued on July 14, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Cell based multilevel converter with multiple operating modes and associated control method" was invented by Liviu Mihalache (Valencia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilevel converter (300, 310) includes a plurality of power cells (302, 304) receiving power from a source and supplying power to multiple output phases (U, V, W), wherein each output phase (U, V, W) includes a high voltage power cell (302) that is designed to output more than three voltage levels."

The patent was filed on July 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/565,311.

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