ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,604, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Power converter, power conversion controller, and control method" was invented by Takumi Ito (Tokyo), Kentaro Nabeshima (Tokyo) and Masashi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter includes a converter, an inverter, and a control unit. The converter converts electric power supplied from a power supply side to DC power. The inverter is provided on an output side of the converter. The control unit is configured to calculate a control difference between a target value for a target control voltage in a DC section provided on the output side of th...