ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,702, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power conversion system using daisy-chain communication line and control method" was invented by Yoshifumi Shimizu (Tokyo) and Naoto Niimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A daisy-chain communication line of a power conversion system connects a master station for controlling a plurality of slave stations each including a power converter to the plurality of slave stations. The plurality of slave stations is configured to supply electric power to a load device from the power converter of each slave station. Each of the plurality of slave stations switches between "ope...