US Patent Issued to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS on Oct. 28 for "Modular power overlay device and method" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,690, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Modular power overlay device and method" was invented by Liqiang Yang (Gloversville, Fla.), Darrell Lee Grimes (Boca Raton, Fla.), Richard Anthony Eddins (Margate, Fla.), Shung Ik Lee (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Judd Everett Swanson (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular POL component can be arranged to define a half-bridge converter topology, and can be coupled with other modular POL power components to define a full-bridge or 3-phase AC converter topology based on a desired power output. The assembled POL components can be moun...