US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Oct. 14 for "Traction inverter DC-link active discharge method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,076, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Traction inverter DC-link active discharge method" was invented by Shisheng Liang (Shanghai), Xiaobo Sun (Shanghai), Jian Wang (Shanghai) and Hui Yan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic vehicle includes A DC link capacitor and a traction inverter coupled to the DC link capacitor. The traction inverter includes a first half bridge circuit, a second half bridge circuit, and a third half bridge circuit each coupled between terminals of the DC link capacitor. The traction inverter includes a driver circuit coupled to the traction i...