ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,558, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Converter having a quick transition to a normal operating mode after an initial start-up" was invented by Dominik Ergin (Baiersdorf, Germany), Felix Kammerer (Erlangen, Germany) and Sebastian Muller (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter has module devices each with a series connection of at least two partial modules being electrically connected in series. A central device is configured to switch module control devices, in which a sum of the transmitted voltage values or the transmitted sum value reaches a predefined voltage ...