ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,765, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for controlling rectifier" was invented by Guiying Lin (Ningde, China), Meng Wu (Ningde, China) and Jinfeng Gao (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a rectifier includes determining reactive power and active power according to sampled voltages and sampled currents of a three-phase alternating current signal, determining given active power according to a given voltage and a sampled voltage of a direct current signal, determining a target voltage vector for model predictive contro...