US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Dec. 16 for "System and method for voltage compensation and state of charge-assisted power sharing in DC microgrids" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,414, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for voltage compensation and state of charge-assisted power sharing in DC microgrids" was invented by Md Shafiul Alam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fahad Saleh Al-Ismail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Md Shafiullah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Ali Yousif Abido (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a direct current (DC) microgrid is described. The control system includes a DC bus with a positive bus line and a negative bus line, DC battery circuits with a positive coupler ...