US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on May 12 for "Monitoring system for a mechanically driven circuit breaker" (German, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,181, issued on May 12, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Monitoring system for a mechanically driven circuit breaker" was invented by Felix Boy (Heidelberg, Germany), Arda Tueysuez (Darmstadt, Germany), Sebastian Breisch (Neckarsteinach, Germany), Ondrej Frantisek (Heddesheim, Germany), Gianluca Cortinovis (Albino, Italy) and Alessandro Stucchi (Dalmine, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a mechanically driven circuit breaker that includes fixed and moveable contacts, and a main actuator, wherein the moveable contact is selectively spaced from the fixed contact, and wherein the main actuat...