ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,761, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Parallel conversion units without an output balancing circuit" was invented by Yu Kawai (Tokyo), Yuki Itogawa (Tokyo) and Takeshi Amimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first capacitor and a second capacitor are connected in series through a neutral point on the DC side of an inverter. A first converter receives an input voltage from a power source and outputs a first DC voltage to the first capacitor. A second converter receives a common input voltage and outputs a second DC voltage to the second capacitor. A control circuit controls the first conver...