US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on April 14 for "Fault current tolerant switching mechanism for a remotely operated circuit interrupter" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,489, issued on April 14, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Fault current tolerant switching mechanism for a remotely operated circuit interrupter" was invented by Michael Thomas Martin (Mars, Pa.), Theodore James Miller (McDonald, Pa.) and David Walter Brooking (New Galilee, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remotely operated circuit interrupter includes: primary separable contacts coupled to an operating mechanism and a thermal-magnetic trip device structured to interrupt current from flowing to loads by opening the primary separable contacts during a fault event; and a fault current tolerant secondary swit...