ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,050, issued on June 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device for converting power from a direct-current (DC) power source to an alternating current (AC) rotating machine" was invented by Masahiko Orii (Tokyo), Tatsuya Mori (Tokyo), Kenta Kubo (Tokyo) and Kento Ogiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modulation control unit calculates a voltage offset on the basis of fundamental or basic voltage references, and calculates modification voltage references by performing superposition of the voltage offset on the basic voltage references; and an inverter converts, on the basis of the modificati...