US Patent Issued to HITACHI ENERGY on May 27 for "Method for operating a converter, converter and computer program product" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,236, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method for operating a converter, converter and computer program product" was invented by Alexandre Christe (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is configured for operating a converter (10) which is implemented as a modular-multilevel converter and comprises a control arrangement (38) and a number M of phase-legs (21 to 29). The method comprises detecting whether the converter (10) has to be set into one mode of a group comprising a static synchronous compensator mode or a grid unbalance mode, generating mode control signals (MCS) ...