US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on March 31 for "Active turn off control gate driver for solid state circuit breaker" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,555, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Active turn off control gate driver for solid state circuit breaker" was invented by Jeffrey Ewanchuk (Manchester, Conn.), Baljit Riar (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Xin Wu (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of open-loop fault control of a solid state circuit breaker includes the steps of populating a lookup table with predetermined current and temperature values and corresponding interrupt times, measuring a temperature of the solid state circuit breaker, measuring an electrical current passing through the solid state circuit br...