ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,459, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, power conversion device, and control method" was invented by Mitsuhiro Takada (Tokyo) and Ryotaro Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a target voltage outputter that outputs a target voltage that is a target value of output voltage of a power conversion circuit and an element controller that controls a switching element in accordance with the target voltage. Upon acquisition of an operation command that provides an instruction for startup of the power conversion circuit, the target voltage outputter raises the ...