ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,008, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Power generation system and associated method" was invented by Govardhan Ganireddy (Roanoke, Va.), Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Ashburn, Va.), Shahid Ali (Bangalore, India) and Prashanth Manikumar Chennamsetty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting a determined operating condition of a first power converter that is one of a plurality of first power converters in a power generating unit, and the power generating unit is one of a plurality of power generating units. The method further includes responding to detecti...