US Patent Issued to Dragerwerk on July 7 for "Automatic power on apparatus, system, method, and circuit" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,147, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Automatic power on apparatus, system, method, and circuit" was invented by Georgios Kokovidis (Waltham, Mass.) and Peter Andrew Lund (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic power on apparatus, system, method, and circuit automatically control the on/off state of a first electronic device or a second electronic device. When the second electronic device is positioned on, in, or proximate to the mounting area of the first electronic device, the automatic power on circuit establishes a coupling signal between a first portion of the automa...