ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,818, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Power converter and method for operating a power converter" was invented by Kilian Dallmer-Zerbe (Bubenreuth, Germany), Diego Alberto Roman Marcos (Erlangen, Germany) and Rodrigo Alonso Alvarez Valenzuela (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter has at least one series circuit of switching modules that each have semiconductor switches and an energy storage unit. A method of operating the power converter includes a step of making a prediction for at least one voltage value of the power converter and carrying out switchi...