ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,211, issued on July 21, was assigned to GALVION LTD. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Power manager with reconfigurable power converting circuits" was invented by David N. Long (Northborough, Mass.), Richard Flathers (Southborough, Mass.), Gregory D. Mcconnell (Holden, Mass.) and Nicholas J. Piela (Wilbraham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed power network includes a power bus infrastructure distributed over a region with node points provided to interface with controllable power nodes. Each power node can be connected to an external power device such as a DC power source, a DC power load, or a rechargeable DC battery. The power ...