US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 17 for "Method and a device for compensating a faulty switch in a multi-level flying capacitor converter" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,812, issued on June 17, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and a device for compensating a faulty switch in a multi-level flying capacitor converter" was invented by Hemant Bishnoi (Aargau, Switzerland), Sami Pettersson (Dietikon, Switzerland), Mario Schweizer (Rutihof, Switzerland), Daniel Christen (Uster, Switzerland) and Gernot Riedel (Baden-Rutihof, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for compensating a faulty switch in a multi-level flying capacitor converter includes a converter capacitor arranged in parallel to an input, a first and second converter switches arranged respect...