US Patent Issued to Advanced Energy Industries on Feb. 25 for "Input impedance networks with power recovery" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,778, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Denver).

"Input impedance networks with power recovery" was invented by Gideon Van Zyl (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input impedance networks and associated methods are disclosed. An input impedance network comprises a source-terminal-pair configured to couple to a power source, a recovered-power-terminal-pair configured to couple to a power sink, a transmission line coupled to the source-terminal-pair that comprises M sections, and N clamping circuits. Each of the N clamping circuits is configured to clamp at least one of voltage or curren...