ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,174, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT Corp. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Method to operate parallel bypass thyristors at low load" was invented by Jonas Sonsby Mouridsen (Odense V, Denmark) and Kasper Tellerup (Odense V, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for turning on thyristors is presented, the system comprising: an input configured to be coupled to a power source; an output configured to be coupled to a load; a first branch coupled between the input and the output and including a first thyristor having a first threshold voltage; a second branch coupled between the input and the output and coupled in pa...