US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 16 for "Unified control strategies for grid-connected converters" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,425, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Unified control strategies for grid-connected converters" was invented by Mohammadreza Miranbeigi (Atlanta), Rajendra Prasad Kandula (Atlanta) and Deepak M. Divan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal control (UniCon) scheme for grid-connected converters is presented herein that allows operation automatically in grid-following, grid-firming, and grid-forming modes. The converter does not need information on the grid or connected sources and loads. The converter can set its own operating point based on local measurements. The converter can op...