US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Nov. 18 for "System and methods for detecting a switching semiconductor in circuit interrupters" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,391, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"System and methods for detecting a switching semiconductor in circuit interrupters" was invented by Chandrashekar N (Hyderabad, India) and Hetul Patel (Waterford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to detect a status of a switching semiconductor in a switching circuit is provided. The system includes the switching semiconductor, an actuator, wherein the actuator is electrically coupled to a first end of the switching semiconductor, a resistor electrically coupled to a second end of the switching semiconductor, a switching device electrically coup...