ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,479, issued on March 25, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT Corp. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Arrangement of converters and fast switches to provide BESS and UPS combined function" was invented by Eric Lucien Brun (Sassenage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include a system comprising at least one energy-storage-device connection, a first output connection to be coupled to a main power source providing main power, a second output connection to be coupled to at least one load, a first and second power converter coupled to the at least one energy-storage-device connection, and at least one controller coupled ...