US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on July 14 for "Assembly having a multilevel converter" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,518, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Assembly having a multilevel converter" was invented by Martin Pieschel (Altdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly has a multilevel converter for outputting reactive power to a power supply network. The multilevel converter contains three module branches arranged in a delta circuit. Each module branch contains a plurality of submodules in an electrical series circuit. Each module branch contains a first group of the submodules and a second group of the submodules. The submodules of the first group each contain a first electrical e...