US Patent Issued to Shanghai Jiaotong University on Jan. 20 for "Multi-port ac power grid flexible interconnection device and control method and system thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,415, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai).

"Multi-port ac power grid flexible interconnection device and control method and system thereof" was invented by Jianwen Zhang (Shanghai), Xin Feng (Shanghai), Gang Shi (Shanghai), Jianqiao Zhou (Shanghai), Yuhui Huang (Shanghai), Xu Cai (Shanghai) and Zhijian Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a multi-port flexible AC interconnection device with active power flow control capability for an AC power grid, including a static synchronous compensator and a multi-port flexible interconnection module connected in series. The m...