ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,797, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Random shifting of switching edges of a converter pulse pattern" was invented by Markus Schafer (Schonungen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a converter includes: determining a pulse pattern for the converter, wherein the pulse pattern contains switching transitions at which an output voltage is switched between two levels; shifting switching transitions in the pulse pattern, wherein a random value is added to a point in time at which the output voltage is switched to shift the switching transitions; and applying t...