US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Multilevel direct current power source powering multilevel inverter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,924, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Multilevel direct current power source powering multilevel inverter" was invented by Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.), Junghoon Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-level inverter control system includes a power storage system having a high voltage terminal, a low voltage terminal, and an intermediate voltage terminal. The intermediate voltage terminal is at a voltage between the high voltage terminal and the low volt...