Relative to your design, assuming it would pass the obviousness
test (or that is, passes because no-one is going down this road
and it was obvious they knew it was there), you could get a
patent on it, if no one, otherwise, had filed for such in any
country. OK, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm explaining this from the
view point of a "common man" who has been involved in patents.

Some time ago, I filed the paperwork for a patent involving the
coupling of more than one DC power generation unit (don't confuse
this with Generators vs. Alternators) to a common workload.
Because I was doing something incredibly simple, almost text
book, I was able to defeat an argument before it was raised by
stating in my paperwork that everyone trying this was going after
very complex circuitry when diodes would solve the problem of
"Kirchhoff's law" and back flow of current through the parallel
generation units.

I abandoned this patent when I found that in the EAA chapter
where I was in TX, two different builders had done this without
knowing that other people were ignoring the simplicity....

What I was after was being able to have two or more
generators/alternators (any combination) of the same "power band"
(e.g., 12-14VDC, 24-28VDC, etc.) be able to power a load and have
one of the units fail and the other automatically pick up the
load w/o a pilot having to do anything. My thinking was, you lose
an engine in a multi-engine aircraft and you don't really want to
be dealing with rudder, throttles, props, and mixture along with
flipping switches for power.

This could also be an issue for emergency vehicles, fishing
vessels, etc. People dealing with a dead alternator/generator
need the lights in the dash to work while the other equipment is
functioning (many truck bed platforms have the original
electrical wiring with additional wiring for a HPO Alternator to
drive pumps, lights, etc., and being able to handle the original
power system's needs if that alternator dies, would be nice...).

Back to the EAA guys: I could not go forward because their
aircraft were flying with this circuitry that predated my initial
filing by about 3 years. And my paperwork did what I really
intended -- made this non-patentable (this should have been done
in the early '70s with silicon diodes...)

So, I mentioned this so that you might want to do the research on
your "invention" and see if anyone has done the thing you are
doing. You may find that in your claims you have to be quite
specific, rather than being generic with multiple "sub-claims".

Again, I'm not a IP attorney, don't play one on TV and did not
stay in whatever that hotel/motel is that they talk about.
Lastly, YMMV.

Regards,
Steve Thompson


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