ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,477, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Power converter" was invented by Gopal Mondal (Erlangen, Germany), Alexander Hensler (Gerhardshofen, Germany) and Henrik Krupp (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a power converter to convert between a first, AC voltage and a second voltage. An example includes: half-bridges connected in parallel, each comprising two semiconductor switches connected serially with outer terminals of the half-bridge forming terminals for the second voltage; a filter connected between midpoints of the half-bridges and terminals f...