ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,955, issued on April 8, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Bipole power transmission schemes" was invented by Mita Babu Narayanan (Stafford, Great Britain), Omar Jasim (Stafford, Great Britain) and Carl Barker (Stafford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipole power transmission scheme includes a first converter station positioned in-use remote from a second converter station, and first and second transmission conduits to in-use interconnect the first converter station with the second converter station and thereby permit the first converter station to transmit power to the second conve...