US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on May 12 for "Heterogeneous solid state transformers with hierarchical control" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,294, issued on May 12, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Heterogeneous solid state transformers with hierarchical control" was invented by Jack D. Flicker (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Jacob Mueller (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structural modularity is critical to solid-state transformer (SST) and solid-state power substation (SSPS) concepts, but operational aspects related to this modularity are not yet fully understood. Previous studies and demonstrations of modular power conversion systems assume identical module compositions, but dependence on module unif...