US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 29 for "Radiation hardened active power transformer" (Connecticut, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,617, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Radiation hardened active power transformer" was invented by Suman Dwari (Vernon, Conn.), Michael A. Futrell (Rockford, Ill.), Baljit Riar (East Hartford, Conn.) and Parikshith Channegowda (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation hardened active power transformer includes an active compensator on a primary side of a transformer. The transformer steps up an input voltage to an output voltage. The active compensator controls a reactive power of the output voltage. The active compensator includes wide band-gap transistors which r...