US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Sept. 16 for "System and method for selective activation and deactivation of electrical brushes used in a dynamoelectric machine for current density optimization" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,224, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for selective activation and deactivation of electrical brushes used in a dynamoelectric machine for current density optimization" was invented by Paul August Quail (Balston Lake, N.Y.), Jason Salvatore Disanto (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Eric Steven Buskirk (Scotia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for selective activation and deactivation of electrical brushes used in a dynamoelectric machine for current density optimization is disclosed. The approach includes using an arrangement of switches electrically...