US Patent Issued to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Methods of starting power converter systems, and power converter systems" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,874, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Rugby, Great Britain).

"Methods of starting power converter systems, and power converter systems" was invented by Martin Geske (Berlin), Hendrik Gloes (Berlin) and Thomas Brueckner (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter system is provided and includes a power converter having a first converter that includes at least a controllable semiconductor switch having a threshold voltage and a gate voltage for normal on-state conduction, DC terminals connected to a DC link, and AC terminals, a controller of the system supplies current to the f...