US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Power converter for converting between direct current and alternating current" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,893, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power converter for converting between direct current and alternating current" was invented by Takashi Nozawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power converter includes a first connection unit to which a DC power source is connected, a second connection unit to which an AC power source or a power consuming device is connected, a conversion unit that performs power conversion between the first connection unit and the second connection unit, and a control unit that controls an operation of the conversion unit. The control unit performs both AC...