US Patent Issued to SUPERGRID INSTITUTE on May 27 for "Power transfer system between an AC network and a reversible hydraulic turbine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,123, issued on May 27, was assigned to SUPERGRID INSTITUTE (Villeurbanne, France).

"Power transfer system between an AC network and a reversible hydraulic turbine" was invented by Hugo Mesnage (Lyons, France), Renaud Guillaume (Lyons, France), Loic Leclere (Lyons, France), Florent Morel (Lyons, France) and Florian Errigo (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transfer system includes a first branch including a controlled switch and a second branch including a variable frequency converter, in parallel between an AC network and a reversible pump-turbine, the variable frequency converter includes: a first AC/DC converter ...