US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on March 25 for "Converter arrangement and method of operation for said converter arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,438, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Converter arrangement and method of operation for said converter arrangement" was invented by Lutz Hanel (Lauf, Germany), German Kuhn (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Pfeifer (Erlangen, Germany), Martin Pieschel (Altdorf, Germany), Kunal Sharma (Erlangen, Germany), Maximilian Durre (Erlangen, Germany) and Michael Karl (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device controls a power flow in an AC network and has a series converter with a DC side to connect to a DC link and an AC side to connect to the AC network via a series transformer....