US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Aug. 11 for "Inductors for direct current (DC) circuit breakers in aircraft applications" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,242, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charoltte, N.C.).

"Inductors for direct current (DC) circuit breakers in aircraft applications" was invented by Parikshith Channegowda (Marlborough, Conn.), Bo Liu (Vernon, Conn.) and Xin Wu (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) is provided. The SSCB includes an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit includes inductor electrical connections, a diode rectifier bridge that drives current, which enters the electrical circuit in first or second directions, across the inductor electrical connections in only one of the f...