ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,079, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich).
"Communication in a converter device" was invented by Daniel Hallmans (Ludvika, Sweden), Jimmy Ohman (Ludvika, Sweden), Johan Osterberg (Borlange, Sweden) and Joakim Tolfmans (Falun, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used to synchronize time between nodes of a converter device for high voltage power conversion. The method is performed in a first node of the converter device and includes receiving a time reference from a second node of the converter device, obtaining a delay value for receiving time references from the second node, determining a c...