ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,471, issued on March 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a contactor" was invented by Gergely Galamb (Bad Aibling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a contactor (10) is described, wherein the contactor (10) comprises at least two contacts (18, 20, 22) electrically conductively connected to one another in a closed state of the contactor (10), having the method steps of partially charging an DC link capacitance (103) in electrical contact with the contactor (10) and closing the contactor (10)."
The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2021, under Application No. 17/522...