US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION MAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Power conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,899, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION MAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Nagaoka, Japan).

"Power conversion device" was invented by Tenjiro Hiwatari (Tokyo), Sota Sano (Tokyo), Akira Satake (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Ohishi (Nagaoka, Japan), Yuki Yokokura (Nagaoka, Japan) and Yuto Kobayashi (Nagaoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device comprises: power conversion circuitry for converting DC power into AC power and supplying it into a load according to a switching state quantity defined by combinations among switching parameters of switching device...