ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,450, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Legrand DPC LLC (West Hartford, Conn.).
"Circuit breaker forensics for power distribution units" was invented by Christian Krause (Zwickau, Germany), Danny Baumann (Neukirchen, Germany), Michael Suchoff (Palm Beach, Fla.), James P. Maskaly (Reno, Nev.) and Paul Mott (Somerset, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are power distribution systems and methods in which a power distribution unit (PDU) is provided with an overcurrent protection device and per-outlet current sensing at each of the multiple electrical outlets of the PDU. The described embodiments enable the identification of th...