US Patent Issued to JST POWER EQUIPMENT on Feb. 10 for "Switchgear device with grounding device and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,985, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JST POWER EQUIPMENT INC. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Switchgear device with grounding device and related methods" was invented by Koustubh Ashtekar (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Alex Florencia Cochran (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchgear device may include a frame defining an interior compartment, an electrical breaker component carried within the interior compartment, and a first optical sensor carried within the interior compartment. The switchgear device has a grounding device coupled to the electrical breaker component and being within the interior compartment. The grounding device in...