US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Dec. 16 for "Capacitor embedded rogowski current detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,511, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Capacitor embedded rogowski current detection" was invented by Rodrigo Fernandez-Mattos (Solihull, Great Britain) and Stephen Minshull (Bromsgrove, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical power converter (1, 1', 1") includes a DC link capacitor (3, 3', 3") configured for connection to a DC power source to provide an input load, at least one pair of semiconductor switches (2a, 2b, 2c, 2a', 2b', 2a", 2b") connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor (3, 3', 3") and positioned on either side of an output load terminal (10a, 10b, ...