ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,134, issued on May 12, was assigned to HS Elektronik Systeme GmbH (Nordlingen, Germany).

"Aircraft solid state power controller and method of operating an aircraft solid state power controller" was invented by Thomas Gietzold (Unterwilflingen, Germany), Gerd Kluger (Ederheim, Germany), Peter Brantl (Fremdingen, Germany) and Stefan Schreitmueller (Auhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft solid state power controller comprises a feed node to be electrically connected to a primary electric power supply; a load node to be electrically connected to at least one electric load; and at least one electric switching device, ...