ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,866, issued on April 7, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Dynamic current rectifier" was invented by Bouchaib Cherif (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Philippe Olivier-Marie Pouliquen (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic current rectifier includes an input terminal for receiving an input current, an output terminal for outputting a rectified output current, a first current mirror, a second current mirror, a first switch having a first terminal coupled to the input terminal and a second terminal coupled to the first current mirror, a second switch having a first terminal coupled to the outp...