ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,651, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).
"Circuit arrangement for a current converter" was invented by Juergen Boehmer (Stein, Germany), Eberhard Ulrich Krafft (Nuremberg, Germany), Andreas Maerz (Leinburg, Germany), Andreas Nagel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Jan Weigel (Grossenbuch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement for a current converter has a half bridge with two series-connected power semiconductor switches in each case. The half bridge has a module with a power semiconductor switch in each case, a first DC voltage terminal, a second DC voltage terminal and an AC voltage term...