US Patent Issued to Torqeedo on Feb. 17 for "Transformer for a watercraft, energy distribution system for a watercraft, and watercraft" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,260, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Torqeedo GmbH (Wessling, Germany).

"Transformer for a watercraft, energy distribution system for a watercraft, and watercraft" was invented by Jens Biebach (Wessling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy distribution system is provided that includes a first AC bus; a second AC bus for connecting to at least one second AC load; a third AC bus for connecting to a supply network; a transformer that converts an alternating voltage of each of the first to third AC buses into an alternating voltage of each of the other of the first to third AC buses; a DC bus; an energy storage device con...