The REAPERlab is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert S. Balog (Professor and lab Director), Dr. Mohammad Shadmand, Dr. Morcos Metry, Dr. Wesam Rohouma, Dr. Miroslav Begovic, and Dr. Aaqib Peerzada have been awarded US Patent 12,413,071 for their invention of a “Power quality compensation system, a power electronic controller and control method of the same.”
The wide application of power electronic-based loads such as variable speed drives, inverter-based home appliances, solid-state LED lights, personal electronics in distribution networks has given rise to problems related to power quality. These problems include current/voltage harmonics, voltage sag/swell, unbalance, and fluctuations. These power quality issues can have a deleterious impact on utility and consumers including increased system losses, malfunction to protection equipment and interference with other loads, damage to electrical devices. This invention is a power quality compensation system and control method to address these issues.
For Prof. Balog, this is his twenty-third US patent that he has been awarded. Most of his patents have been assigned or licensed to the industry and have already been or are currently being commercialized.
