ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,675, issued on April 21, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Circuit breaker state detector, and low-voltage electrical system including circuit breaker state detector" was invented by Martin Zlatanski (Kusnacht, Switzerland), Yannick Maret (Dattwil, Switzerland), Wojciech Piasecki (Cracow, Poland) and Matija Varga (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker is connected between an input supply line and an output supply line of a low-voltage electrical system and comprises a test signal transceiver and evaluator. The test signal transceiver comprises a first transceiver section being capac...