ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,184, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DC Systems B.V. (Aalsmeer, Netherlands).
"Protection circuit connecting and disconnecting a DC operated device from a DC power source" was invented by Henricus David Stokman (Aalsmeer, Netherlands) and Panagiotis Kolios (Leiden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit for connecting and disconnecting to a DC power source, and a DC operated device including such a protection circuit. The protection circuit has input terminals for receiving power from a DC power source and output terminals for providing power to a DC operated device; a first stage with a voltage measuremen...