US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Sept. 16 for "Solid state transformer controller" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,244, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Solid state transformer controller" was invented by Glen Ghias Farivar (Singapore), Howe Li Yeo (Singapore), Radhika Sarda (Singapore), Fengjiao Cui (Singapore), Abishek Sethupandi (Singapore), Haonan Tian (Singapore), Madasamy Palvesha Thevar (Singapore), Brihadeeswara Sriram Vaisambhayana (Singapore) and Anshuman Tripathi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoupled system for controlling a solid state transformer (SST), the SST comprising an AC-to-DC stage, a DC-to-AC stage, and a DC-to-DC stage, the DC-to-DC stage comprising one or m...