ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,963, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Power component and system with the power component" was invented by Jonas Daenzer (Untersiggenthal, Switzerland) and Ralf Baechle (Weilheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power component includes two electric terminals, a component housing, a main component at least partially surrounded by the component housing, connected with the two terminals, and configured to carry a power current flowing between the two electric terminals, and a sensor and emitter unit which is configured to measure a value of a physical quantity (T, V, triangleV) character...