US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporal on Sept. 8 for "Circulating current control for a modular multilevel converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,092, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo) and Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporal (Tokyo).

"Circulating current control for a modular multilevel converter" was invented by Miwako Tanaka (Tokyo), Kaho Mukunoki (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Fujii (Tokyo), Takeshi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Tomohiko Tatsumi (Tokyo), Takashi Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Ryota Okuyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion unit includes a plurality of arms each having a plurality of converter cells connected to each other in cascade. A converter control unit that controls the power conversion unit includes a voltag...