US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Dec. 16 for "Power converter for transferring power between an AC side and a DC side, and power supply method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,512, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Power converter for transferring power between an AC side and a DC side, and power supply method" was invented by Alexander Unru (Baunatal, Germany), Marcel Kratochvil (Kassel, Germany) and Burkard Muller (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter between an AC side and DC of the power converter is disclosed. The AC side is connected to an AC supply grid and the DC side is connected to a DC grid. The power converter includes a bridge circuit connected to the AC side of the power converter via AC switches and connected to the ...