ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,256, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Switch disconnector with an arc extinguishing shield plate" was invented by Varsha Sabale (Maharastra, India) and Krzysztof Ryszard Bednarski (Leicestershire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch disconnector comprises an electrical contact system for breaking a circuit connectable to the switch and a ferromagnetic plate being positioned in a predefined distance to the electric contact system, wherein the predefined distance is selected such that the magnetizing force of the ferromagnetic plate on an electric arc occurring between separat...