US Patent Issued to Utah State University on Dec. 30 for "High-bandwidth control of unfolding-based AC-DC converters" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,763, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Utah State University (Logan, Utah).

"High-bandwidth control of unfolding-based AC-DC converters" was invented by Aditya Zade (Logan, Utah), Shubhangi Gurudiwan (Logan, Utah), Bryce Hesterman (Providence, Utah) and Regan A. Zane (Hyde Park, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an unfolder with three input terminals connected to a three-phase AC power source and three output terminals, p-terminal, o-terminal, and n-terminal, and a three-port converter connected to the unfolder and feeding a direct current ("DC") load. The three-port converter includes input capacitors. A fee...