US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 29 for "Voltage source inverter control for unbalanced and nonlinear loads" (Ohio, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,888, issued on July 29, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Voltage source inverter control for unbalanced and nonlinear loads" was invented by Mahesh Sitaram Illindala (Delaware, Ohio), Varsha Sunkara (Columbus, Ohio), Seok-Hee Han (Dunlap, Ill.), Jackson Wai (Dunlap, Ill.), Jesse R. Gerdes (Dunlap, Ill.) and Dachuan Yu (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface circuit to interface an energy source to a power bus of a microgrid includes a switching inverter circuit, an output filter circuit coupled between an output of the three-phase inverter circuit and the power bus, and a control circuit loop to con...