US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on March 24 for "Hybrid circuit breaker with improved current capacity per device size" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,739, issued on March 24, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Hybrid circuit breaker with improved current capacity per device size" was invented by Kenan Askan (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid circuit breaker includes: input connectors configured to receive electrical energy from a power grid; output connectors configured to transfer electrical energy to a load; current paths, each connecting a respective input connector, of the input connectors, and a respective output connector, of the output connectors; an electro-mechanical bypass switch in at least one of the current paths; a semiconductor cir...