US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Fault current limiting solid-state switching device" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,557, issued on May 26.

"Fault current limiting solid-state switching device" was invented by Govind Chavan (Raleigh, N.C.), Chunmeng Xu (Raleigh, N.C.), Zhou Dong (Raleigh, N.C.), Thorsten Strassel (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland) and Pietro Cairoli (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and devices for providing fault current limiting protection in a power circuit may include a solid-state switching device (SSSD) including at least one switch device including a semiconductor device, a voltage clamping circuit connected in parallel with the at least one switch device, and one or more circuit breakers connected in series wit...