ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,568, issued on Feb. 24.

"Load bank system and method thereof to generate large number of discrete loading steps" was invented by Vijay Vasant Deshpande (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to Load Banks for testing generators and electric power sources and more particularly the present invention discloses a load bank system circuit topology and method thereof, to generate large number of discrete loading steps. The system and method thereof employs at least five switches RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, at least five resistors R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, the R3 a special tap resistor having at least one...