ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,242, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Power protection system" was invented by Chandana Gajanayake (Singapore), Anh Vu Ho (Singapore) and Mohamed Sathik Mohamed Halick (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power protection system includes a first DC power source, a first load, a first power bus connecting the first power source and the first load, and a first solid state circuit breaker circuit integrated in the first power bus. The first solid state circuit breaker circuit includes a first semiconductor switch, a first capacitor arranged between the high si...