US Patent Issued to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 27 for "Method and device for compensating leakage currents in an electrical power converter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,432, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method and device for compensating leakage currents in an electrical power converter" was invented by Daniel Spesser (Illingen, Germany), Tim Pfizenmaier (Leonberg, Germany), Florian Mayer (Tamm, Germany) and Stefan Endres (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method compensates for leakage currents in a protective conductor of an electrical power converter. The method includes: using a first differential current sensor for determining a differential...