ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,503, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conditioner and power conversion system" was invented by Masakazu Okayasu (Tokyo) and Haiqing Li (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PI controller that calculates a PI control value for charge limitation, which is a PI control value for a deviation between a DC voltage applied to an inverter circuit and a charge limiter operating voltage when the DC voltage is higher than the charge limiter operating voltage, and calculates a PI control value for discharge limitation, which is a PI control value for a deviation between the DC voltage and a discharge limiter opera...