ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,408, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Solid state power controller, power management system and power converter" was invented by Mohamed Sathik Mohamed Halick (Singapore), Chandana Gajanayake (Singapore), Anh Vu Ho (Singapore) and Pothuru Venkat Sai Virinchi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state power controller includes at least one semiconductor switch with a control terminal, a controller for generating a pulsed signal, and a gate driver circuit for receiving the pulsed signal and generating a pulsed driver signal. The gate driver circuit incl...