US Patent Issued to Queen's University at Kingston on Sept. 1 for "Five level hybrid active clamped DC-AC converter" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,134, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston, Canada).

"Five level hybrid active clamped DC-AC converter" was invented by Javad Ebrahimi Jouzdani (Kingston, Canada) and Alireza Bakhshai (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Five-level hybrid active clamped converters provide improved performance and switching device utilization over conventional five-level active neutral point clamped converters. Topologies include increased dc-link voltage relative to active neutral point clamped designs and enable capacitor voltage balancing, and are suitable for next generation high-power DC to AC con...