ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,646, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ADB Safegate BV (Machelen, Belgium).

"Voltage limiting device for constant current circuits" was invented by Florian Grimm (Heidelberg, Germany), Nicolas Sauvage (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium) and Eric De Vleeschauwer (Lochristi, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage limiting device (15) for constant current circuits (10) comprises input terminals (153) for connecting the voltage limiting device to a current supply (11) of a constant current circuit, output terminals (154) for connecting the voltage limiting device to a load, a voltage clamping circuit (151), and a switching circuit ...