ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,863, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device including a power converter and a controller configured to set a switching frequency and a control frequency" was invented by Tomoyuki Taniguchi (Tokyo) and Hiroto Mizutani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a controller for a power converter, a switching frequency of a switching element is determined on the basis of at least one of a magnetic parameter of a magnetic component and an electric parameter of the power converter, and the switching frequency changes stepwise in each of M intervals on the basis of one of a predetermine...