US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 27 for "Electrical contact and method of designing an electrical contact" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,455, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Electrical contact and method of designing an electrical contact" was invented by Bartlomiej Cesarz (Pultusk, Poland), Zbigniew Domurad (Tobolice, Poland), Piotr Liszewski (Przasnysz, Poland) and Piotr Piekarski (Cegielnia Lewicka, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contact includes a knife having a first portion, a second portion, and a fixed contact. The fixed contact comprises a galvanic contact point and an arc ignition point. The knife is configured to operate in a first position, where the knife insulated from the fixed contact; a sec...