US Patent Issued to GE Energy Power Conversion Technology on Jan. 13 for "Fault current reduction for power converter systems" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,870, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd. (Warwickshire, Great Britain).

"Fault current reduction for power converter systems" was invented by Martin Geske (Berlin) and Gregory Reichhold (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter system is described. The power converter system includes a power converter comprising at least one converter unit, each converter unit comprising a plurality of semiconductor devices, each semiconductor device including at least a controllable semiconductor switch. A local controller is associated with at least one converter unit and adapted to receive C...