ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,451, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Impulse Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Appliance with modular full-bridge driver and DC source" was invented by Samuel Redmond D'Amico (San Francisco), Bradley James Tallon (Arcadia, Calif.), Samuel William Lenius (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jacob Russell Davis (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a DC source configured to supply a first DC output during operation of a first appliance. The DC source is configured to supply a second DC output during operation of a second appliance. The first DC output differs from the second DC output. The apparatus includes a communic...