ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,228, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Rimac Technology LLC (Sveta Nedelja, Croatia).

"Multilevel modulation" was invented by Jan Kacetl (Pardubice, Czech Republic), Toma Kacetl (Pardubice, Czech Republic), Wasim Sarwar Dilov (Zagreb, Croatia) and Jack Charles Holden (Witney, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a multilevel converter is disclosed. The method can include assigning, based on at least one variable parameter, a first number N of power converter modules to a first group; assigning, based on the at least one variable parameter, a second number M of the power converter modules to a second ...