ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,242, issued on May 27, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Submodule as a hybrid cell for a modular multilevel converter" was invented by Viktor Hofmann (Bayreuth, Germany), Mark-Matthias Bakran (Erlangen, Germany) and Sebastian Semmler (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A submodule for a modular multilevel converter has ten semiconductor switches that can be switched off, four capacitors, six network nodes, and two terminals. The components are mounted such that different voltages are generated between the terminals of the submodule by controlling the semiconductor switches. This arrangement of com...