US Patent Issued to LS ELECTRIC on May 12 for "Multi-level converter-type STATCOM system and operation method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,148, issued on May 12, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Multi-level converter-type STATCOM system and operation method" was invented by Jin Hee Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a multi-level converter including a plurality of valve sections including a plurality of sub modules, a plurality of VCU controllers connected to each of the plurality of valve sections, and an upper controller connected to the plurality of VCU controllers, wherein the VCU controller is configured to receive status information from each of the plurality of sub modules to transmit the st...