ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,840, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VoltServer Inc. (East Greenwich, R.I.).
"Hot pluggable packet energy transfer receiver" was invented by Charles Noah Lutz (Providence, R.I.), Jonathan Casey (North Kingstown, R.I.), Stanley Mlyniec (Coventry, R.I.) and William J. Fox (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet energy transfer (PET) receiver comprising receiver front-end circuitry including an input, an output, and at least one switch connected at the output. There is receiver output control and conditioning circuity including an input and an output to be connected to an electrical load. There is a synchronizer circuit ...