ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,371, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Low-voltage protective device" was invented by Kenan Askan (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-voltage protective device, comprising a first semiconductor circuit arrangement with a power semiconductor, a control and driver unit to drive the first semiconductor circuit arrangement with a control voltage, the control and driver unit configure the first semiconductor circuit arrangement: -in a switching-on process for a switching-on time with a first voltage value, which is a threshold control voltage, of the control voltage, and -increase the cont...