US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Sept. 15 for "Device for converting electrical energy into heat in the field of medium- and high-voltage engineering and converter arrangement having the device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,858, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Device for converting electrical energy into heat in the field of medium- and high-voltage engineering and converter arrangement having the device" was invented by Martin Kapelke (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Schrammel (Schwarzenbruck, Germany) and Ingo Euler (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device converts electrical energy into heat with a conversion module. The conversion module contains a first resistor assembly connected to a first connection terminal and has a plurality of resistor disks, and a first semiconductor switc...