ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,174, issued on July 15, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).
"Inverter diagnostic testing methods and apparatus" was invented by Stan Rex Simms (Arden, N.C.), Irving A. Gibbs (Mills River, N.C.), Gabriel Braga (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Thomas A. Farr (Candler, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of testing a multilevel inverter include selectively pulsing (i.e., attempting to turn on) at least one of the inner and outer switches of the inverter and determining a status of at least one of the inner switches, the outer switches and the neutral clamping diodes of the inverter based whether the pulsed at least ...