US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Programmable power dissipation-controlled electronic circuit breaker for high voltage distribution" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,404, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Programmable power dissipation-controlled electronic circuit breaker for high voltage distribution" was invented by Robert B Schlak (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Samuel Oludare Bamgbose (Beacon, N.Y.) and Timothy Kilmer (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for controlling power distribution with respect to an ECB (electronic circuit breaker) is disclosed. The approach employs a microcontroller inside the ECB to directly control startup current, which facilitates optimization of startup and shutoff current ramp for specific sw...