ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,915, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Loading sharing across mulitple power supplies" was invented by Gregory L. Detweiler (Cincinnati) and Pradeep Vijayan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system operable to implement a power balancing control scheme is provided. In one aspect, a power system includes multiple independent power supplies with independent batteries feeding onto a common power bus. The power supplies regulate the voltage on the common power bus at the same time. The power balancing control scheme, when implemented, causes the load on the common power bus ...