US Patent Issued to NXP on Dec. 2 for "Bidirectional power converter with phase leg fault detection for charging a battery that powers a multiphase load" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,361, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Bidirectional power converter with phase leg fault detection for charging a battery that powers a multiphase load" was invented by Erik Santiago (La Tour du Crieu, France), Jerome Dietsch (Lavernose-Lacasse, France), Angela Maria Bernal Pinzon (Toulouse, France) and Rami Troudi (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional power converter that includes phase legs that are used for both powering a multiphase load from a battery and for charging the battery from a power source. The converter includes fault detection for detecting faults in the p...