ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,728, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Systems and methods of decentralized control of a static transfer switch" was invented by Thomas Anthony Kendzia III (Richmond, Va.), Bhaskar Reddy Nili (Bangalore, India), Raj Kumar (Bangalore, India), Veerakumar Bose (Richmond, Va.), Liju Kallarackal (Richmond, Va.) and Balaji Appadurai (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static transfer switch (STS) system for transferring power between power sources is provided. The STS system includes first and second alternate-current (AC) switch assemblies. The first AC switch assembly includes a fir...