US Patent Issued to Airbus on Sept. 8 for "Protection in a direct current high voltage electric system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,980, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Protection in a direct current high voltage electric system" was invented by Florian Kapaun (Blagnac, France) and Gerhard Steiner (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical arrangement for protection in a direct current high voltage electric system comprises an input connection with an input terminal, an output connection with a output terminal, a main disconnection component between the input terminal and the output terminal and at least one clamping circuit between the input terminal and the output terminal. The clamping circuit has a first co...