US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 16 for "Power factor correction circuit configured as isolated three-phase resonant dc/dc converter for bidirectional power flow" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,235, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Power factor correction circuit configured as isolated three-phase resonant dc/dc converter for bidirectional power flow" was invented by Mohamed Elshaer (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive power system has a first circuit arrangement including an AC/DC power converter, a transformer, a switching bridge connected between the AC/DC power converter and transformer, and a plurality of switches connected with an output of the transformer and that connect the output between an electric machine and another switching bridge suc...