US Patent Issued to Hubbell on Feb. 24 for "Ground fault circuit interrupter with integrated controller" (Connecticut, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,563, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Ground fault circuit interrupter with integrated controller" was invented by John E. Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), James Casey Musson (Derby, Conn.), William Vernon Miller III (Aldie, Va.), Joseph Michael Meady (Stratford, Conn.), Joseph Edgar Dupuis (Griswold, Conn.) and Brian S. Chia (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit interrupting device including a phase conductor, a neutral conductor, an interrupter configured to disconnect the phase conductor and the neutral conductor from a load, and a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of...