ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,132, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High fault-current inverters" was invented by Leo Francis Casey (San Francisco) and Raymond Daly (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system and method for enabling an inverter to temporarily sustain fault current. One implementation is a system that includes an inverter having a plurality of transistors. A reservoir having an outlet channel is configured to contain a compressed gas. The outlet channel is arranged to direct the compressed gas towards a heatsink in thermal communication with one or more of the p...