ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,457, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Circuit for controlling current of direct current voltage source and control method" was invented by Kui Wang (Beijing), Zedong Zheng (Beijing), Lie Xu (Beijing) and Yongdong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for controlling a DC voltage source current includes a low-voltage DC bus capacitor, a first set of power electronics half-bridge units, a first set of branch circuit inductors, and a first set of DC switches. All of the first set of power electronics half-bridge units are connected in parallel between a positive pole and a negative pole o...