ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,102, issued on March 24, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Power supply system with optimized availability" was invented by Nicola Kessler (Bielefeld, Germany), Hartmut Henkel (Blomberg, Germany), Jochen Zeuch (Blomberg, Germany), Matthias Stiewe (Altenbeken, Germany) and Patrick Schweer (Hameln, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system for galvanically isolating an input voltage, which is present on an input side of the power supply system and which is hazardous when touched, from a touchable output voltage, which is to be provided on an output side of the power supply system, a...