ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,379, issued on March 17, was assigned to HAGER-ELECTRO SAS (Obernai, France).

"Electronic switching protection apparatus without generating an electric arc" was invented by Benjamin Pidancier (Selestat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic switching protection apparatus that does not generate an electric arc includes a phase current line and a neutral current line and an electronic protection tripping device electrically connected to a measurement sensor (1'). A galvanic isolation mechanism (4) is provided having first and second pairs of contacts, configured to be actuated by an actuator (3). An electronic switching ...