ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,898, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Kirtland AFB, N.M.).

"Circuit and method for regulating currents to multiple loads" was invented by James Peter O'Loughlin (Placitas, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein reduce numerous active regulators (e.g., to only one) used in previous circuits that require regulated current and still accomplish the current regulation provided to each load by means of an array of autotransformers, and if required, rectifiers, and filters. Therefore, in an exemplary embodiment, there is eliminated the...