ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,526, issued on April 21, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for providing self-powered timed power isolation circuit" was invented by Eric Sean Averill (Victor, N.Y.), Stanley Earl Orford II (Sun City, Ariz.) and Nicholas Bruno (Spencerport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit comprising: an input power source; an input power regulator connected to the input power source and configured to supply regulated power to circuit component(s); a transient event detector configured to detect a transient event; a timer circuit configured to change a signal on a line connecting...