US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 20 for "Circuit breakers and circuit breaker operational methods" (New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,111, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Circuit breakers and circuit breaker operational methods" was invented by Bhaskar Mitra (Cambridge, Mass.), Nimat Shamim (Tumwater, Wash.), Sheik Mohammad Mohiuddin (Richland, Wash.), Manisha Maharjan (Princeton, N.J.), Ahmad Tbaileh (Seattle), Quan H. Nguyen (Richland, Wash.), Jinho Kim (Auburn, Ala.) and Nader A. Samaan (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuit breakers and associated methods are described. According to one aspect, a circuit breaker includes an input node configured to receive an AC waveform of electrical energy, a...