US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Feb. 4 for "Surge protection and failsafe circuit for DC-DC converter" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,580, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Surge protection and failsafe circuit for DC-DC converter" was invented by Rajkumar Sengodan (TamilNadu, India) and Ann Freida F (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Direct Current (DC)-DC converter includes an input capacitor connected across a positive input terminal and a return input terminal. A DC-DC converter circuit is connected across the positive input terminal and the return input terminal. A current limiting failsafe circuit includes a current limiting portion connected across the positive input terminal and the return input t...