US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 3 for "Method for operating a power electronic converter device with floating cells" (Swiss, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,073, issued on June 3, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for operating a power electronic converter device with floating cells" was invented by Ioannis Tsoumas (Zurich, Switzerland), Tobias Geyer (Ennetbaden, Switzerland), Mario Schweizer (Rutihof, Switzerland), Eduardo Rohr (Camberwell, Australia), Frederick Kieferndorf (Baden, Switzerland), Wim Van-der-Merwe (Ennetbaden, Switzerland), Manuel Vetterli (Basel, Switzerland) and Christian Meier (Ennetbaden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of operating a power electronic converter device for an electrical power conversion...