US Patent Issued to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "AC-DC-AC converter for motor drive applications" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,474, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Warwichsire, Great Britain).

"AC-DC-AC converter for motor drive applications" was invented by Zhi Zhou (Bethlehem, N.Y.) and Duro Basic (Villebon-sur-yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "AC-DC-AC converter for delivering power to an electric motor from a power source is presented. The AC-DC-AC converter comprises a front-end converter and a motor-end converter connected through a DC link, the DC link voltage being generated and controlled by the front-end converter."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/188,725.

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