ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,935, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device and power conversion system" was invented by Tomoya Katsukura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Tawada (Tokyo), Issei Fukasawa (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a modulation rate calculator configured to calculate a modulation rate based on a DC voltage on a DC side an, a limiter configured to update a DC voltage command lower bound limiter based on the lower bound limiter operation value; a maximum power point tracking controller configured to calculate a first DC volta...