US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Multilevel inverter current sensing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,833, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Multilevel inverter current sensing" was invented by Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (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 conversion system includes a conversion device including a multilevel inverter configured to generate two alternating current (AC) output currents, a current sensor configured to sample a current through the multilevel inverter, or from the multilevel inverter, during a switching cycle, and a processor configure to estimate both ...