US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on April 14 for "Integrated multi-port generator-rectifier device and method" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,565, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Integrated multi-port generator-rectifier device and method" was invented by Arijit Banerjee (Urbana, Ill.), Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran (Champaign, Ill.), Phuc Huynh (Urbana, Ill.) and Anjana Jayasanka Samarakoon (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated multi-port generator-rectifier device includes multiple passive output ports provided from a plurality of passive-rectifier windings on a common, single magnetic structure. The passive-rectifier windings interact with a plurality of magnetic poles. Coils i...