US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Sept. 30 for "Vibration-tolerant multi-position, multi-pole continuous-rotation stepper relay" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,303, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Vibration-tolerant multi-position, multi-pole continuous-rotation stepper relay" was invented by Gordon E. Winer (Prescott, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to sequentially opening and/or closing a plurality of switches. A rotational securing assembly sequentially secures and releases a plurality of indexing members evenly distributed along a circular path centered on an axis of rotation of the rotatable disk, thereby sequentially securing and releasing the rotatable disk to and from a sequence of rotati...