ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,491, issued on June 23, was assigned to VACON OY (Vaasa, Finland).
"High power system with antiparallel protection diode arrangement" was invented by Magnus Hortans (Sundom, Finland) and Karl Kyrberg (Vaasa, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high power system includes a common DC-bus supply with bus connections, a DC link capacitor bridging the two bus connections and at least two inverter modules connected to the DC-bus supply via the bus connections. Each inverter module includes at least one inverter cell with at least one free-wheeling diode (FWD). The inverter cells are connected to the bus connections via inverter cell c...