US Patent Issued to ALSTOM Holdings on June 24 for "Voltage source converter and a method for operation thereof" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,442, issued on June 24, was assigned to ALSTOM Holdings (Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France).

"Voltage source converter and a method for operation thereof" was invented by Erik Velander (Vasteras, Sweden), Magnus Jansson (Kvicksund, Sweden) and Johnny Holmberg (Hallstahammar, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage source converter includes two half bridges each having two current valves connected in series to be connected to opposite poles of a DC source/load. A gate drive unit controls a semiconductor device of a current valve. An arrangement carries out voltage measurements for providing a value of DC voltage between the opposit...