ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,474, issued on April 15, was assigned to AEROJET ROCKETDYNE INC. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Dual core shoot-through protection inductor topology" was invented by Carl Roger Haynie (Pilot Hill, Calif.) and Aaron Michael Poehls (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoot-through protection circuit including a first switch connected to a positive bus and connected to a first center node via a first electrical path, a second switch connected to a negative bus and connected to the first center node via a second electrical path, a circuitous third electrical path connecting the first center node to a first load output, a first m...