ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,916, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).

"Power filter" was invented by Zhongfeng Pan (Shanghai), Chong Liu (Jiangsu, China), Weijia Lu (Shanghai), Lei Wang (Jiangsu, China), Qingfeng Xia (Jiangsu, China), Shangpeng Li (Jiangsu, China), Qiang Zhou (Shanghai) and Guangjun Qin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a power filter. The power filter may include an overvoltage protection circuit and an LC filter circuit connected to the overvoltage protection circuit, wherein the overvoltage protection circuit includes a voltage regulato...