ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,595, issued on July 14, was assigned to VERTIV Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"Inverter control method, apparatus and device" was invented by Huawei Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Peng Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter control method, apparatus and device are provided, so as to solve the problem of risk of damage to switching devices in an inverter due to delays. The method includes: in a first switching period, determining a current change duration based on a time instant at which an inductor current in an inverter is equal to a first current threshold and a time instant at which the inductor current is equal to...