US Patent Issued to HYDRA-ELECTRIC on March 24 for "Electronic snubber for elimination of switch contact impedance increase and arc contaminant deposition" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,738, issued on March 24, was assigned to HYDRA-ELECTRIC COMPANY (Burbank, Calif.).

"Electronic snubber for elimination of switch contact impedance increase and arc contaminant deposition" was invented by Robert Andrew Guziak (West Mifflin, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for a switch comprising two or more contacts, where the switch is configured to transition between an open state and a closed state; and a circuit comprising a snubber circuit in communication with the switch, where a snubber circuit or energy limiting isolator circuit is configured to eliminate arcing during the transition between t...