ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,494, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nabtesco Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inverter, method of controlling inverter, program of controlling inverter" was invented by Yasuo Ono (Tokyo), Michael Haider (Zurich), Dominik Bortis (Zurich) and Johann W. Kolar (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes: a high electric potential input terminal, a low electric potential input terminal, an output terminal that outputs AC power, a transistor pair, a driver that performs complementary switching control of the transistor pair. The driver includes a current adjustment element that adjusts the channel current and a voltage adjustment elem...