US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on Oct. 7 for "Redundant power distribution circuits for electric vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,597, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Redundant power distribution circuits for electric vehicles" was invented by Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically powered vehicle comprises a DC bus and a plurality of batteries, each coupled in parallel to the DC bus. At least one switch is coupled in series between at least one battery of the plurality of batteries and the DC bus and a plurality of inverter circuits are each coupled in parallel to the DC bus. A plurality of motors are each coupled to a respective inverter circuit of the plurality of inverter c...