ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,118, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Power conversion apparatus having multi-level structure" was invented by Kwang Soon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Heum Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Soo Hong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of converters connected to a plurality of cell strings, respectively, and one control unit for applying a control signal to each of plurality of converters, wherein the plurality of converters constitute a multi-level."
The patent was fi...