ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,870, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VERTIV Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"System and method for intelligent power converter control of fuel cells and other auxiliary power sources" was invented by Arturo Di Filippi (Bologna, Italy), Graziano Galuppi (Imola, Italy), Giovanni Zanei (Faenza, Italy), Peter Panfil (Columbus, Ohio) and Michele Venturini (Voghenza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods involving a power converter and various control schemes in which the power converter is able to monitor and intelligently manage various operational scenarios such as startup and shu...