ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,040, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Bidirectional power converter having intermediate circuit" was invented by Andre Koerner (Lippstadt, Germany), Martin Dierkes (Paderborn, Germany) and Christian Buhlheller (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter including a three-phase alternating current input and output, a first power converter stage having a first input and output and a second input and output, an intermediate circuit, a second power converter stage having a first input and output and a second input and output and a direct current input and output, whe...