ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,927, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device with loss minimization and synchronized detection and switching frequency changing" was invented by Hayato Takeuchi (Tokyo), Takato Toi (Tokyo) and Takaharu Ishibashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to obtain a power conversion device that can prevent ripple from increasing owing to change in switching frequency. A power conversion device includes: semiconductor switching elements connected between a DC voltage source and an output side, and connected in series to each other; a reactor; a control unit which control...