ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,920, issued on April 1, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Shandong, China).

"Thermal protection and warning method and system based on junction temperature prediction for power devices of offshore wind power converters" was invented by Zhenbin Zhang (Shandong, China), Jin Zhang (Shandong, China), Ruiqi Wang (Shandong, China), Yu Li (Shandong, China) and Zhen Li (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a thermal protection and warning method and system based on junction temperature prediction for a power device of an offshore wind power converter. The method includes: calculating a thermal res...