ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,952, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY HOLDINGS Inc. (Tokyo) and MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device control system" was invented by Kenichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Naoto Maeda (Tokyo), Jun Takami (Tokyo), Ryota Samejima (Tokyo), Hideki Noda (Tokyo), Jun Isoo (Tokyo) and Kazu Shoji (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is provided for a power conversion system having a power converter that controls a virtual synchronous generator simulating a synchronous generator and interconnected to a power grid. The control system has a virtual synchronous impedance compensation block i...