ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,464, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Remotely controllable circuit breaker device with single pair of contacts" was invented by Amirhossein Samakar (Fremont, Calif.), Jiger Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Armin Patel (Seattle) and Christopher Buonomo (San Jose, 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 connected to a power source to a second terminal connected to a load. A first electromagnet in the device is used to activate a trip mechanism and open a switch to disconnect the first terminal from the second, ...