ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,769, issued on April 14, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Input isolated voltage monitor" was invented by Nageswara Rao Kalluri (Bangalore, India), Tanay Ghose (Kolkata, India), Manish Kumar (Bangalore, India), Bapu Kallappa Banahatti (Kota, India) and Premanshi Jain (Rajasthan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage monitor for a fly-back circuit. The circuit includes a voltage source, a transformer comprising a primary winding electrically coupled to the voltage source and a secondary winding electrically coupled to a load, a diode connected between the secondary winding and the load, a switch ...