US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Feb. 17 for "Wide band gap (WBG) devices based three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) power module designs" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,090, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Wide band gap (WBG) devices based three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) power module designs" was invented by Yue Sun (Knoxville, Tenn.), Hua Bai (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rudiger Kusch (Braunschweig, Germany) and Daniel Costinett (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module comprises: an upper arm structure that includes a first semiconductor switch, a second semiconductor switch and a first diode; a lower arm structure that includes a third semiconductor switch, a fourth semi...