US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Sept. 9 for "Power converter and control method for power converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,140, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power converter and control method for power converter" was invented by Hiroya Natsuhara (Tokyo), Isao Kezobo (Tokyo), Tatsuya Mori (Tokyo), Chiaki Fujimoto (Tokyo), Atsushi Ito (Kobe, Japan) and Yusuke Takarada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes: a multiphase inverter circuit including multiple switching elements; multiple current sensors each of which detects a current of a respective phase of the inverter circuit; a terminal voltage detector that detects a voltage of each terminal of a load connected to the inverter circuit; ...