ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,437, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reactive power control device, reactive power control method, and reactive power control program" was invented by Kosuke Seki (Tokyo) and Haiqing Li (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactive power control device includes a voltage acquisition unit that detects a grid voltage and a DC voltage; a modulation rate calculation unit that calculates a modulation rate; a reactive power command acquisition unit that obtains a first reactive power command from a host device; a blind zone determination unit that determines whether the first reactive power command is at a blind z...