US Patent Issued to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE on Nov. 4 for "Method and circuit for an integrated DC converter in an AC battery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,427, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and circuit for an integrated DC converter in an AC battery" was invented by Sven Lill (Lauffen, Germany) and Eduard Specht (Bruchsal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ancillary supply in a modular multi-level converter with a plurality of modules arranged in strands, a respective module including at least two half bridges with semiconductor switches and at least one energy accumulator, which are interconnected in parallel. In the respective module, an at least single-core input terminal is formed through respective cent...