ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,899, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device and aircraft equipped with power conversion device" was invented by Yusuke Shirouchi (Tokyo), Ryota Asakura (Tokyo) and Kenji Fujiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device which converts power from a power supply and supplies the converted power to a load, includes: a first inverter including first capacitors and a plurality of switching elements; a second inverter including a plurality of switching elements, and second capacitors to which voltages smaller than voltages of the first capacitors are applied; an...