ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,698, issued on May 19, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Apparatus, system and method of monitoring joints and switch conditions in an electrical network" was invented by Viral Shah (Surat, India), Gurmeet Singh (Pune, India), Jagdambika Srivastava (Gonda, India), Joshua D. Myers (Fletcher, N.C.) and Mark A. Gould (Baden, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic transfer switch structured to switch between a first power source and a second power source to supply continuous power to a load includes a power switching mechanism including a switch structured to couple the load to one of the first power source ...