ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,573, issued on April 7, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Pyrotechnic circuit breaker" was invented by Fabien Lamy (Taverny, France) and Maxime Grandiau (Thiescourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pyrotechnic circuit breaker comprising: a housing, an electrical conductor passing through the housing, at least one blade, able to move so as to cut at least one portion of the electrical conductor, the breaking of the electrical conductor defining a cut area separating a first cut end of the electrical conductor from a second cut end of the electrical conductor, a pyrotechnic actuator,the circuit breaker...