ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,832, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Future Systems Besitz GmbH (Roedental, Germany).
"Short circuit detection apparatus" was invented by Peter Spiel (Regensburg, Germany) and Bernhard Forst (Kronach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short circuit detection apparatus (1) for detection of an electrical short circuit current flowing in at least one monitored current path comprises an evaluation circuit (8) including at least one programmable or preprogrammed arithmetic unit (8A) adapted to perform at least one arithmetic combination operation, ACOP, on a first voltage, UR, provided by a resistive element (6) of the monitored...