ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,004, issued on Aug. 25.

"XD relay with manual override knob" was invented by Eric Graham (Bellingham, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular family of electrical switching relays that utilize interchangeable mechanical override knobs or blank fillers, combined with enclosures capable of containing two or more independently operable relays; where each independent operating relay can selectively be constructed to either have a mechanical override knob or to have a blank filler thus resulting in a broad number of product permutations from a minimum number of unique components that are required to build those permutations. An ele...