US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Simultaneous charging and power export using n-leg converter" (California, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,447, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Simultaneous charging and power export using n-leg converter" was invented by Mohammad Nanda R. Marwali (Irvine, Calif.), Zahra Mohajerani (Los Angeles), Muhammad Mobeen Mahmood (Irving, Texas), Yuxiang Shi (Cary, N.C.) and Yanjun Shi (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for simultaneously generating a charging signal and a power signal via a converter having a first leg, a second leg, a third leg, and a fourth leg are disclosed herein. An alternating current (AC) source input voltage having a fundamental frequency of a po...