ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,237, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device" was invented by Kota Hamanaka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Ryosuke Uda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Kaho Mukunoki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Toshiyuki Fujii (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device includes: a power converter which includes a plurality of converter cells; and a control device. The control device includes: a phase-balance control unit to generate arm-current command values, based on direct-current voltages of power storage elements of the plurality converter cells; a circulating-current control unit to ...