ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,385, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Hybrid control topology for regenerative cascaded H-bridge circuitry" was invented by Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed (Mequon, Wis.), Zhongyuan Cheng (Kitchener, Canada), Ahmed Abuelnaga (Dundas, Canada), Marius G. Chis (Cambridge, Canada), Brian J. Seibel (Grafton, Wis.) and Navid R. Zargari (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system with regenerative cascaded H-bridge circuitry leveraging a hybrid control topology, an example of which is a variable frequency drive. Hybrid control allows for substantially c...