US Patent Issued to CITEL on April 7 for "Overvoltage protection device and method of manufacturing such a device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,540, issued on April 7, was assigned to CITEL (Sevres Cedex, France).

"Overvoltage protection device and method of manufacturing such a device" was invented by Vincent Crevenat (Reims, France) and Vincent Lapauw (Reims, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an overvoltage protection device and a protection device obtained via the method are described. The method includes the steps of (1) electrically connecting a first electrode of a first protection element to a first electrode of a second protection element via a heat-sensitive disconnector device, (2) procuring a pre-assembled arc-extinguishing device tha...