ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,366, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Compact switchboard systems and methods" was invented by Darren Tremelling (Apex, N.C.), Stefan Rakuff (Garner, N.C.), Will Eakins (Coventry, Conn.), Sheng Zhong (Hillsborough, N.C.), Christopher Scott (Raleigh, N.C.), Christian White (Pittsboro, N.C.), Nikolaus Zant (Raleigh, N.C.) and Elio Perigo (Wendell, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical switchboard is provided. The electrical switchboard includes a plurality of conductive sheets, a plurality of branch devices, each branch device of the plurality of branch devices electrically coupled to e...