US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Dec. 23 for "Generator-rectifier system and grid interface" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,343, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Generator-rectifier system and grid interface" was invented by Arijit Banerjee (Urbana, Ill.) and Debranjan Mukherjee (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator-rectifier system and grid interface includes an active rectifier that accepts an input from an ac port of a multi-port permanent magnet synchronous generator. Passive rectifiers are connected to the others of the plurality of ac ports. Connections provide outputs of the active and passive rectifiers. A first converter operates at a fixed duty ratio dri...