ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,055, issued on June 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion apparatus, motor drive apparatus, and refrigeration cycle application device" was invented by Koichi Arisawa (Tokyo), Shuta Ishikawa (Tokyo), Takaaki Takahara (Tokyo), Tomohiro Kutsuki (Tokyo) and Haruka Matsuo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion apparatus includes: a rectifying unit that rectifies a power-supply voltage applied from a commercial power supply; a capacitor connected to an output end of the rectifying unit; an inverter that converts DC power output from the capacitor into AC power and outputs the AC power to ...