US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on July 14 for "Device for extinguishing arcs in an electrical circuit" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,097, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Device for extinguishing arcs in an electrical circuit" was invented by Gabriel Lantz (Zurich), Matthias Bator (Klettgau, Germany) and Julien Rault (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for extinguishing arcs in an electrical circuit includes a first arc chamber configured to divide a first part of an arc into a plurality of subsidiary arcs, a second arc chamber configured to divide a second part of the arc into a plurality of subsidiary arcs; wherein the first arc chamber and the second arc chamber are connected by a connection element...