ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,791, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Diversified Technologies Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Passively activated switch system for a high-current coil" was invented by Kathleen Elaine Quinlan (Somerville, Mass.), Marcel Pierre Joseph Gaudreau (Lexington, Mass.), David B. Cope (Medfield, Mass.), Megan McCandless (Cambridge, Mass.), Arieanna Blanchette (Haverhill, Mass.) and Slade Lewis (Gardner, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passively activated switch system for a high-current coil including a plurality of silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs) each electrically coupled to a high-current coil, each SCR electrically coupled in paral...