US Patent Issued to TMEIC on Sept. 15 for "Multilevel power conversion system, and circuitry of multilevel power conversion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,832, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilevel power conversion system, and circuitry of multilevel power conversion system" was invented by Issei Fukasawa (Tokyo), Tomoya Katsukura (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing semiconductor elements of a power converter from breaking down due to an overvoltage by a lightning surge in a multilevel power conversion system is provided. The multilevel power conversion system includes a multilevel power converter, and a controller that includes an operation control unit that causes an operation mode of the multile...