ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,397, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intrinsically safe energy harvester for powering multi-sensor" was invented by Praveen Kumar Kajjam (Hyderabad, India) and Murali Krishna Bezawada (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical circuit for protecting an electronic device, and a method of operating the electric circuit, can involves the use of a protection circuit that includes a group of diodes and one or more field effect transistors, along with an energy storage device associated with the electronic device. The field effect transistors are electrically connect...