US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on May 27 for "Bi-directional converter protection systems" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,220, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Bi-directional converter protection systems" was invented by Suman Dwari (East Hartford, Conn.), W. Warren Chen (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Lei Xing (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a bi-directional converter circuit comprising a plurality of switches and at least one flying capacitor. One or more the plurality of switches can experience overvoltage in a fault state. The system can include a control module operatively connected to the plurality of switches to control a state of the plurality of switches. The cont...