ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,125, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Connaught Electronics Ltd. (Ireland).

"System including an ideal diode circuit for negative transient protection" was invented by Sarun Rajan (Troy, Mich.) and Francois Desfleurs (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a battery configured to supply voltage to the circuit, a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) located within the circuit, an inductor in series with a drain channel of the MOSFET, a transistor in series with the inductor, wherein an emitter channel of the transistor is connected with the inductor and a base of the transistor is con...