US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on May 19 for "Motor control device with solid state circuit breaker" (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,736, issued on May 19, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Motor control device with solid state circuit breaker" was invented by Xin Zhou (Wexford, Pa.), Huaqiang Li (Menomonee Fall, Wis.) and Thomas Ruchti (Pewaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination motor control device includes a power circuit structured to sense voltage and/or current flowing through the combination motor control device, a semiconductor switching and interruption circuit including a number of solid state transistors and being operable to turn on to allow power to flow through the combination motor control device and to turn off...