ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,295, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Solid state circuit breaker snubber" was invented by Andrew McLean (Halesowen, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snubber circuit for a solid state circuit breaker (SSCB), the snubber circuit comprising a series connected capacitor and transient voltage suppressor, TVS, connected across switches of the SSCB, and a bidirectional solid state circuit breaker comprising: a main SSCB circuit configured to be connected between a power supply and a load, and comprising first and second semiconductor switches connected in series, and a snubber c...