US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting and removing residue from low current electrical contacts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,977, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and removing residue from low current electrical contacts" was invented by Michael James Bunting (Seal Beach, Calif.) and Dean Anh Nguyen (Seal Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a method, a device, and an apparatus include a control unit configured to determine contact resistance of one or more electrical contacts of one or more circuits by, at least in part, applying a test current to the one or more circuits, cycling a connection in relation to the one or more circuits a predetermined number of times, and...