US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Sept. 22 for "Power processing and energy storage" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,384, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Power processing and energy storage" was invented by Al-Thaddeus Avestruz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaofan Cui (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jason Siegel (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device may perform power processing for multiple power nodes coupled in parallel. The power conversion device includes interconnects that couple power nodes to power converters. The power converters include a dense tier of power converters sized to correct, using multiple corrective components, from varied power flow levels ...