ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,684, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DANFOSS EDITRON OY (Lappeenranta, Finland).

"Electric power distribution system with at least two bus-tie links" was invented by Jussi Paakkunainen (Lappeenranta, Finland) and Andrey Lana (Lappeenranta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power system includes direct voltage buses (101, 102) and at least two bus-tie links (103-105) each being connected between the direct voltage buses. Each bus-tie link has at least one capacitor (106-111) between positive and negative poles of the bus-tie link. At least one pole of each bus-tie link is connected via overcurrent protection device...