US Patent Issued to Cummins on March 24 for "Low loss snubber with energy recovery" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,090, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Low loss snubber with energy recovery" was invented by James Douglas Bucher II (Rogers, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a powertrain system including one or more electrical loads and prime mover configured to drive one or mechanical loads. A power converter is configured to power the one or more electrical loads via a main output and an auxiliary output The power converter includes a rectifier configured to power the main output and including a plurality of switching devices, an inductive-capacitive network operatively coupled wit...