ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,773, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Power source transfer circuit" was invented by Xiaohang Chen (Shanghai), Haijun Zhao (Shanghai), Ying Shi (Shanghai), Jiamin Chen (Shanghai), Yangfeng Song (Shanghai), Qing Yang (Shanghai) and Jihua Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a power source transfer circuit for switching among a plurality of power sources to supply power to a load. The power source transfer circuit includes a first switch, a second switch and a bypass switch, wherein one of the plurality of power sources supplies pow...