US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Aug. 19 for "Power processing and energy storage" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,986, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Power processing and energy storage" was invented by Al-Thaddeus Avestruz (Ann Arbor, Calif.), Xiaofan Cui (Ann Arbor, Calif.) and Jason Siegel (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device may perform model-referenced power processing for multiple diverse power nodes. The power conversion device includes interconnects that couple power nodes connection ports to power converters The power converters include a dense tier of power converters sized to correct from varied power flow levels of a defined porti...