US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "AC drive coupled to zigzag transformer power processing apparatus and method of use thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,378, issued on Sept. 23.

"AC drive coupled to zigzag transformer power processing apparatus and method of use thereof" was invented by Grant A. MacLennan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Hans Wennerstrom (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method and apparatus for processing power, comprising the steps of: generating/using 3-phase power; feeding an AC drive with the 3-phase power, the AC drive generating a first output; and transforming the first output with a zigzag transformer, the zigzag transformer linked to at least one load output/load connector. The method and apparatus comprises an optional filter f...