ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,119, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for controlling a converter, apparatus and system" was invented by Cord Prignitz (Rostock, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for controlling a converter and corresponding apparatus and system are provided. The converter is configured to be connected to a rotor of a doubly-fed induction generator for feeding electrical power into an electrical grid, the converter having a machine-side inverter, a grid-side inverter, and a DC voltage intermediate circuit including a protection element for dissipating power from the DC voltage inte...