ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,004, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HS ELEKTRONIK SYSTEME GMBH (Nordlingen, Germany).

"Aircraft solid state power controller and method of monitoring the temperature of a solid state switch in an aircraft solid state power controller" was invented by Thomas Gietzold (Unterwilflingen, Germany), Gerd Michael Kluger (Ederheim, Germany), Markus Greither (Augsburg, Germany), Joshua C. Swenson (Rockford, Ill.), Nhia Yang (Roscoe, Ill.), Robert C. Cooney (Janesville, Wis.), Francis Belisle (Beloit, Wis.) and Charles Shepard (DeKalb, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring the temperature of a solid state switch in an ai...