US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on March 25 for "Method and system for insulation monitoring in the aircraft power district and its loads" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,422, issued on March 25, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for insulation monitoring in the aircraft power district and its loads" was invented by Ali Khalid Al-Karaghouli (West Midlands, Great Britain) and Grzegorz Popek (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring insulation in a motor drive circuit configured to convert DC power from a power source to AC power to drive a motor. The method includes boosting a DC link voltage of an inverter of the motor drive, isolating the motor drive circuit from the power source; performing at least one isolation ...