US Patent Issued to PRODRIVE TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATION SERVICES on May 12 for "Modular reconfigurable electrical AC/DC converter" (Swiss, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,217, issued on May 12, was assigned to PRODRIVE TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATION SERVICES B.V. (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

"Modular reconfigurable electrical AC/DC converter" was invented by Johann Walter Kolar (Zurich, Switzerland), David Menzi (Burgdorf, Switzerland) and Jordi Everts (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical converter may include AC terminals, a first and second DC terminal, and converter modules. Each of the converter modules has an AC node. The second DC terminal forms a common node of the converter modules. A connection between the AC nodes of the converter modules and the AC terminals i...