ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,017, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Circuit breaker device with three-position actuator" was invented by Jiger Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Troy Herndon (San Jose, Calif.), Emilio Molina Reyes (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua Lamar Suttle (Oakland, Calif.), Christopher Buonomo (San Jose, Calif.), Amirhossein Samakar (Fremont, Calif.) and Simraan Alok Gole (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker device is used to control flow of electrical power from a first terminal that connects to a power source to a second terminal that connects to a load. A solenoid or other type of actuat...