US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Jan. 20 for "Estimating remaining life of a capacitor in a power converter" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,732, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Estimating remaining life of a capacitor in a power converter" was invented by Deepak Balaji Somayajula (Pune, India), Ranjith Kumar Sreenilayam Raveendran (Pune, India), Kaijam Maurice Woodley (Brown Deer, Wis.) and Thomas Michael Ruchti (Pewaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system includes a first electrical network configured to convert time-varying power to direct current (DC) power; a second electrical network configured to convert DC power to time-varying power; an energy storage apparatus electrically connected to the first electri...