US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 28 for "High power bidirectional solid-state circuit breaker" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,286, issued on July 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"High power bidirectional solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by David Richard Esler (Gloversville, N.Y.), Satish Prabhakaran (Colonie, N.Y.), Ren Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Omer Gundogmus (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Liqiang Yang (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Constantinos Minas (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker may include power modules, gate drives, a current sensor, and a controller. Each power module may include two back-to-back MOSFETs with body diodes. The MOSFETs may have opposite orientations and a common sourc...