ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,345, issued on June 24, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).
"Converter stations" was invented by Mita Babu Narayanan (Stafford, Great Britain) and Jorge Miguel Goncalves (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter station, for a bipole power transmission scheme, includes a first voltage source converter and a second source converter. Each converters have a first terminal as transmission conduit and a second terminal as a return conduit. The second terminal of the return conduit of the first converter is electrically connected to the first terminal of the transmiss...