ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,606, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Triple module redundant solid state power switch" was invented by Krzysztof Kieltyka (Enumclaw, Wash.), Drew Kelley (Renton, Wash.), Jacob Hoxsey Fenton (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Hayden W. Wilhelm (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein presented are systems and methods for majority-vote, single fault tolerant switching of a switch using an electrical circuit that involves power transistors that carry relatively large electrical currents through the switch. The number of power transistors in the circuit of a majority-vote, single fault ...