ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,386, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric-power conversion apparatus" was invented by Takashi Kaneyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric-power conversion apparatus is configured to include: an electric-power conversion circuit in which a positive-side switching element and a negative-side switching element are connected in series and from which an AC output is taken out; a DC voltage detector; a phase current detector; and a control device having a control unit that outputs a control signal and a speed instruction signal, an overvoltage protection unit, an overcurrent protect...