ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,879, issued on July 29, was assigned to KK Wind Solutions A/S (Ikast, Denmark).

"Circuit assembly and method for providing electric power for large DC loads" was invented by Eric Hartmann (Kempen, Germany) and Karsten Wenzel (Krefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement for providing electrical power for at least one DC load from at least one alternating current source having a primary DC intermediate voltage circuit. The primary DC intermediate voltage circuit is supplied with electrical power of the alternating current source via two rectifiers connected in series such that a centre point tap is provided, m...