US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 6 for "Reclosing control for coordinating a solid-state switch and a circuit breaker" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,174, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Reclosing control for coordinating a solid-state switch and a circuit breaker" was invented by Zhou Dong (Raleigh, N.C.), Govind S. Chavan (Garner, N.C.), Harish Suryanarayana (Apex, N.C.) and Pietro Cairoli (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predefined peak current value for a system that includes a transfer switch system, a first power source, a downstream transformer, and a downstream circuit breaker is obtained. A sensed current value for some components of the system are obtained by sensors of the system. A corresponding semiconductor switch as...