ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,632, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan) and KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"State estimation system and state estimation method for power conversion semiconductor apparatus" was invented by Haruyuki Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Makoto Mukunoki (Tokyo), Masahiko Tsukakoshi (Tokyo), Ichiro Omura (Kitakyushu, Japan), Masanori Tsukuda (Kitakyushu, Japan), Li Guan (Suzuka, Japan) and Kazuha Watanabe (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state estimation system for a power conversion semiconductor apparatus in an embodiment includes an analysis processing unit and an estimation processi...