US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Feb. 24 for "Reducing inrush current to a capacitor bank" (Swedish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,564, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Reducing inrush current to a capacitor bank" was invented by Elisabeth Lindell (Vasteras, Sweden), Andrea Bianco (Sesto San Giovanni, Italy), Stefan Halen (Vasteras, Sweden) and Carlo Taborelli (Venegono Inferiore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing inrush current to an ungrounded capacitor bank when re-closing a switching device. The method includes opening the switching device, including breaking the current of a first phase of the three phases, and after a predetermined opening time period simultaneously breaking the currents of a...