ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,249, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"High power stacked flux cancelling inductor" was invented by Hiroyuki Kosai (Beavercreek, Ohio), James D. Scofield (Whittier, N.C.) and Tyler W Bixel (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates high power stacked flux cancelling inductors and processes of making and using same. When properly configured and wired, such inductors separate the AC component and DC component of a high power current thus allowing the smaller AC fraction of the overall current to...