US Patent Issued to Ramot at Tel Aviv University on Jan. 13 for "Virtual synchronous machines with improved voltage and frequency control" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,804, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Virtual synchronous machines with improved voltage and frequency control" was invented by George Weiss (Tel Aviv, Israel), Zeev Kustanovich (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Benjamin Shani (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical apparatus (20) includes an inverter (24) having input terminals for receiving DC input power and output terminals for coupling to an AC power grid. A pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator and drivers (26) drive the switches so as to control respective amplitudes, frequencies, and phases of the output curre...