US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 3 for "Power distribution unit with phase redundancy" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,399, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Amork, N.Y.).

"Power distribution unit with phase redundancy" was invented by Robert B. Schlak (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Enver Candan (Fishkill, N.Y.), Brian Charles Tucker (Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Michael Joshua Arlan (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution unit (PDU) of a disclosed embodiment comprises a configurable PDU architecture providing phase redundancy. The configurable PDU architecture comprises a switch bank having power inputs Phase A, Phase B, Phase C, and Neutral and providing respective phase outputs to respective connec...