ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,737, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).
"Programmable DC power bus over voltage protection" was invented by Brian Joseph Huber (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a plurality of transient voltage suppressors (TVSs) that are connected in series across an electrical bus of an aircraft, the electrical bus having a high side and a low side; a plurality of switches, each switch of the plurality of switches configured to selectively shunt a corresponding TVS of the plurality of TVSs to the low side of the electrical bus; and a controller configured to: determine a desire...